Peneren wrote:

han614698 wrote:

A lot of this topic is making fun of IT people and how stupid they do things, but I know first hand that it's not easy.

My Dad is the head of IT for my school district, which is one of the biggest central purchasing school district in the country, so he actually influences what type of new features they add to the next HP computers, since we are one of the biggest customers.

Anyway, that's just my background in this subject, but I would like to say that almost 100% of the time the school district has NO control over what is blocked on your school device - it's almost always the blocking company, whether that be Securely, Fortinet, Hapara, or GoGuardian.

If your blocking system blocks downloads, it is an hours long process to manually program a pathway to this download in many unfamiliar languages just to whitelist it. Websites aren't much easier.

Also I don't know how deep I'm allowed to go into this on Scratch, but if you have a chromebook, there are very easy ways to get to an unblocked google. So I can explain that if someone can confirm that it's allowed for me to say.

My school system has complete control over what is and is not blocked. My school uses the program “iBoss”

zaid1442011 wrote:

PaxtonPenguin wrote:

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I watched a video about hacking an iboss. It's not a program, it's a rack mounted dns blocking thing. (and by hacking I mean gaming on it, the server)

I think they were talking about another thing.

You watched Bringus Studios' video?

RobotChickens wrote:

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BigNate469 wrote:

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dynamicsofscratch wrote:

our school's wifi password is so unprotected that the students use it to watch youtube at school

Wow, that's pathetic (on the part of whoever made the password).
What part of “make a strong password” implies making a easy-to-guess password?

Our school has a really secure wi-fi network for the chromebooks as well as a guest network. Tons of people watch youtube on both, so idk how a secure wi-fi password is supposed to stop this…

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

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RobotChickens wrote:

(#1637)

BigNate469 wrote:

(#1635)

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

our school's wifi password is so unprotected that the students use it to watch youtube at school

Wow, that's pathetic (on the part of whoever made the password).
What part of “make a strong password” implies making a easy-to-guess password?

Our school has a really secure wi-fi network for the chromebooks as well as a guest network. Tons of people watch youtube on both, so idk how a secure wi-fi password is supposed to stop this…

in india there are no chromebooks. and the phones have to be snuck in. btw, the password is so simple that it's on your number keys

2D4eter wrote:

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My schools has a server that stores everyone’s files more or less in a set of different mounted disks, one of them being collaboration, which anyone can access. Last year someone created a hidden folder called games and put at least 15 GB of HTML games (like how do you get that much??) and everyone was using it. Eventually the school deleted it but the school did not disable the cmd. You don’t even need admin to set a folder/file type to system and hidden, which will make it completely invisible even after enabling view hidden files, you need to type the actual name of the folder to open it. It’s like the school wants its students to game. Keep in mind that this is a selective HS.

Chiroyce wrote:

How much RAM does the average school computer lab computer have?

RobotChickens wrote:

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dynamicsofscratch wrote:

(#1643)

RobotChickens wrote:

(#1637)

BigNate469 wrote:

(#1635)

dynamicsofscratch wrote:

our school's wifi password is so unprotected that the students use it to watch youtube at school

Wow, that's pathetic (on the part of whoever made the password).
What part of “make a strong password” implies making a easy-to-guess password?

Our school has a really secure wi-fi network for the chromebooks as well as a guest network. Tons of people watch youtube on both, so idk how a secure wi-fi password is supposed to stop this…

in india there are no chromebooks. and the phones have to be snuck in. btw, the password is so simple that it's on your number keys

Do they want the wi-fi to be secure?? Doesn't seem like it sadly. They might not care about it that much. Just as long people arent doing anything illegal

ideapad-320 wrote:

my school got new pcs. I hope they are not more locked down.
They are intel 13th gen, so the cpus will destroy themselves.

ideapad-320 wrote:

my school got new pcs. I hope they are not more locked down.
They are intel 13th gen, so the cpus will destroy themselves.

BigNate469 wrote:

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ideapad-320 wrote:

my school got new pcs. I hope they are not more locked down.
They are intel 13th gen, so the cpus will destroy themselves.

Why did your school buy PCs actually worth using? Most schools only buy cheap web access (i.e. Chromebooks) because they're on a tight budget.

infinitytec wrote:

Chiroyce wrote:

How much RAM does the average school computer lab computer have?

Our standard is now 16 GB.

dumorando wrote:

infinitytec wrote:

Chiroyce wrote:

How much RAM does the average school computer lab computer have?

Our standard is now 16 GB.

*?? thats better than my server pc..

Wolfieboy09 wrote:

My school can block websites with students home devices by not the DNS server. Websites that are not allowed, gets requested, won't return its IP.
Bypass: I just told my device to use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS IP

PaperMarioFan2022 wrote:

How do you use a VPN? I've been struggling to get around the blocking of many websites, and I want to use my school Chromebook that is way more portable and easier to handle than a traditional PC.

Here's my local device info if you need it at all:
My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 126.0.0.0, No Flash version detected

I want to use the Chrome VPN built inside it.