Does your school block facebook? Here’s how to beat it.
Commenter Jana on the Facebook Hack post asked if she could get around her school blocking facebook.
If your school blocks a certain site, use Google’s translate feature to get around it.
Go to there and “Translate” the site from german to english. Of course the site will remain the same but the URL is google based, and what school would block google?
I have never tried this but have heard it works wonders, let me know in the comments if it works.
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March 23rd, 2006 at 2:35 am
Ha, ya…it should work. It would be like using a google proxy in a way…
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:22 am
sean!
your a fucking genius.
this thing is amazing.
i put it in my favorite places, i’ll be back. lol.
love, danielle
March 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
http://www.mathcookbook.com/ was a popular one for bypassing my high school’s paranoia filter.
March 28th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
There’s a massive list of proxy services and other types of circumventing stuff over at Fast & Loud. Tor could also be of use.
If it’s a software based blocker (i.e. not at the router), I think it’s possible that you could bypass it by loading another OS and working from that — Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux on a USB key should do the trick, or maybe a Knoppix distro on a CD.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
Loki has it down.
April 12th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
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April 13th, 2006 at 9:52 am
THANK YOU SO MUCH…. the http://www.mathcookbook.com thing works GREAT…. YOU ARE A GOD! thanks… bye
April 14th, 2006 at 12:54 am
Clay has a fan!
April 18th, 2006 at 1:57 pm
our school blocked EVERYTHING now… nothing works, at all….. if you have any other ideas, let us know… or else i guess we will just have to live without facebook for the rest of the year… haha thanks
April 18th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
What do you mean everything? Meaning you cant get on the internet?
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:39 am
I tired the google thing it didnt work my school has tight web control can some please email me with some help
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:48 pm
I cant email you without an email address however check this post
May 26th, 2006 at 9:16 am
I’ve tried every link on this site, and none of them have worked. Any other tips??
May 26th, 2006 at 9:44 am
Evan, your school still blocks when you use proxies?
May 31st, 2006 at 9:29 am
Doesn’t work you can login to anything….your school block system must suck because my school you can get to the front page but you can not login than whats the point. Thanks for trying
May 31st, 2006 at 10:42 am
high school principals everywhere must read collegev2…
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Blocking google is not fair, if your school blocks http://www.google.com considering it as a potential threat ask them to open http://www.voxov.com
This site provides google result under safe mode which is good for use at home and schools. I know few schools who have blocked google; they open http://voxov.com whenever http://google.com is requested by the student.
To my view information that google posses should not be blocked for the sake of protecting childrens from harmful content. If you have to do it for some reasons, give your students access to voxov.
Mike
September 6th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
When i try to do the confirmation thing for facebook, my school blocks the email from coming in, how can i avoid this? Thanks, someone please help me, i am bad at all things computer related.
September 7th, 2006 at 12:12 am
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September 7th, 2006 at 10:02 am
If you can get to it you can go here:
http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/
And they will email lists of proxys to go to. If you can’t then call a friend or family member who is not blocked to sign your email up.
September 11th, 2006 at 10:30 am
They have officially blocked everything at my school mathcookbook.com included… help… I am at a boarding school too.
September 12th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Well, the strong anonymity might be a bit sketchy after that German raid on the Tor servers, but Torpark‘s done the trick for me. It’s Firefox with Tor goodness loaded right in that will run from your USB drive.
September 14th, 2006 at 5:42 am
how can i view someones facebook when i dont have one. i really have to.
September 14th, 2006 at 5:43 am
i’m not in college is there any way i can make a college facebook
September 18th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Jacksonville State University blows enough to block Google translator.
September 21st, 2006 at 4:07 pm
My friends school blocks sites if certain words appear on them is there any greasemonkey script to remove or replace the blocked words so it wont trigger the software?
September 21st, 2006 at 8:37 pm
No, but something like that sounds easy to make.
September 29th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
it didnt work at my school! maybe im not doing it right? i went to the google translate site and typed in facebook.com, and it denied it :[
September 29th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
know any other ways around it?
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 am
My school blocks Google Translate under the category “Anonymizers.” Dang, they’re smart.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Lauren, go to http://www.bugmenot.com
October 12th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Best way to get around this is to set up an SSH server with a web proxy on a computer outside the school’s network. Then, if the school won’t let you use anything but HTTP, you can set up an HTTP tunnel to your SSH server through the school’s proxy server. Then just use your SSH client to tunnel a local port to the open proxy on your outside computer, and set the proxy setting in your web browser for this tunnel. This is (as far as I know) unstoppable, and everything’s encrypted, so the school can’t tell what you’re doing.
This requires a lot of setup. I have considered writing a tutorial, but have never gotten around to it.
October 16th, 2006 at 10:43 am
my school has something called sonicWALL.. it’s almost impenetrable, does anyone have any idea, how to get over that security program?
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:15 am
ok, my college is even blocking all anonymizers, I can’t get to any proxies to use at all… I need some serious help…
November 7th, 2006 at 8:47 am
i need help w/ this .. sum one instrust me i cant get it to work !!!!
November 14th, 2006 at 2:24 am
If you guys want to get around almost all of these problems go to
http://www.nickoli.net
on the fornt page it has a link that shows you how to get around almost all blocks using a html based cgi proxy, when I made it I even removed all words like proxy annonymizer etc so it wont get caught. Have fun! email me at nickoli002@hotmail.com for any questions!!!