12-08-2013 18:53

Walter Deitzler

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

I hope it does not get blocked at my school, we use the same filter.

I do not have any classes where I would have time to goof off on CD (like in previous years) but our team does use the school internet, so this could pose an issue.

(Although, blocking for "education and reference" at a school does seem like a silly idea.)

12-08-2013 19:57

jwallace15

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

Are you joking?! That's dumb!

We switched from Barracuda to Sonicwall at my school... Fortunately it was before I joined CD...

Actually I think OpenDNS blocked this on my home computer when I went to join (category of Forums/Message Boards)... Can't remember though.

12-08-2013 20:23

protoserge

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I've been using OpenDNS for a while and haven't had anything but the best browsing experience.

If CD was ever blocked at school, have a faculty sponsor address the issue to the school/district IT group and it should get resolved.

12-08-2013 22:26

BobbyVanNess

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Barracuda blocked it from our school at one point for "forums", which makes a little more sense than education and reference. Though we do have the network administrator on our side. It was back up by the end of the day.

It is ironic, however, that for FIRST kids, Chief Delphi is a bigger time consumer than Youtube, Facebook, and Google combined!

12-08-2013 22:42

Pault

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Barracuda is customized for every network, so just because it was was blocked at 1 person's job doesn't mean it's blocked everywhere. My school uses barracuda and as of 6AM this morning chiefdelphi is not blocked (if your truly devoted to robotics, you will understand why I would be on Chief Delphi in my school at 6AM during August). Although the blue alliance has been blocked for a while.

It's too bad there isn't a type of program that would allow you to hide your ip adress and bypass webfilters. That would be really convenient, although I never said that if such a thing existed I would use it.

12-08-2013 23:22

Michael Hill

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

This. The way our web filters work at work is that many (but not all) websites are given a category (news, social networking, music, etc.). Then our management has a whitelist of categories. Unfortunately, not all sites are categorized (mostly small sites), and the default action for a "Category: none" is to block it. Some single sites are enabled out of policy (twitter, facebook, youtube, etc.). While it's pretty frustrating at times, it's a decent balance of freedom vs. web safety.

12-08-2013 23:24

protoserge

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

There are ways to do this, but they are not to be discussed on this forum

12-08-2013 23:34

Pault

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

I have never been good at sarcasm... Lets try adding a winky face.

Much better.

12-08-2013 23:41

flameout

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

This happened to me in middle school. I forget what site it was, but it was a legitimate site (something like Wolfram MathWorld).

My school, however, used the "Bess" filter -- according to Wikipedia, this is/was later known as "Secure Web SmartFilter EDU". I believe the exact quote was "Educational Material".

I find it odd that the filters are so similar, given that, according to Wikipedia, the filters are unrelated.

13-08-2013 07:33

protoserge

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

Indeed!

13-08-2013 11:02

spydan

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

Useful things sometimes do get blocked at our school, such as Weebly. Just talk to your IT Department and they probably won't have a problem to whitelist the website. It is helpful on our team that our chief advisor is also the school's IT guy.

13-08-2013 13:31

Walter Deitzler

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

We did have Wolfrum Alpha blocked at our school, because kids in their seminar class would use it to find answers to their homework, but CD remained unblocked. I think that maybe, despite the filter, administrators can also go in and block certain websites. Thus allowing the education filter to remain unblocked, but Wolfrum Alpha be shut down.

14-08-2013 13:27

ekapalka

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Ha! CD is blocked at my school as adult...

14-08-2013 13:33

jwallace15

Re: pic: Crazy Web Filter

You must be joking. Did you enter the right URL?

14-08-2013 13:36

techhelpbb

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Does your school use SourceFire?

If they do please ask them to update their rules.

Previously SourceFire incorrectly classified this website as adult I called them an explained that this was incorrect.

However I am sure there are plenty of people out there without subscriptions.

14-08-2013 19:01

ekapalka

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Yep. I sent a request around the end of school to have that changed, but I won't find out if they did anything until school starts up again
Nope, LightSpeed

14-08-2013 19:27

techhelpbb

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Sadly LightSpeed could be any number of things.
If it's an Internet provider they could be using SourceFire in their IDS if they provide this service to you. Verizon Wireless sure does.

15-08-2013 17:53

Whippet

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My old school's web filter had a habit of categorizing anything that wasn't manually approved as "pornography." It took two weeks for my whitelist request to get through to our IT guy because so many people wanted sites to be unblocked. Needless to say, they aren't using that filter anymore.

15-08-2013 20:50

ekapalka

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This is LightSpeed.