RE: [MLUG] Getting SSH around despotic firewalls

[F Vernon Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If they are like us they block every single port incoming and outgoing as
well. Even myself as an administrator I have to go through the proxy and
IPrism with my logon and username to FTP anything and every site I visit is
recorded in the logs and can be used against me if I am brought up on
charges of inappropriate use. My e-mail is filtered and read for any words
that show up as hit on the word list. Any site that offers free downloads,
auctions, smut, music downloads, pornography, foul language, redirections,
and any number of other criteria that are too numerous to get into, these
sites are blocked.

Sound like Facism to you? Maybe, but remember all these messed up kids that
blew up schools and killed teachers and class mates? A lot of their planning
was turned out to have been researched using school e-mail and web access.
This is what spawned this whole filtering thing.

Last year we had a kid in at another school district that used the school
e-mail to send threatening letters to his teachers, he was caught. Whether
or not he intended on doing what he said in his e-mail, I do not know nor do
I care as a school district employee I am happy that he was found before he
could carry out the intentions in his e-mail. The district bought 45 brand
new Dell computers for the kids at a middle school for internet access. I
installed these machines six months ago. As of now we have been through 8
keyboards, 25 mouse balls, 12 mice, 3 monitors, 5 sticks of RAM, 2 hard
drives and had three machines vandalized to the point they no longer work.

I work and have to put up with the same things you do as an employee. Yes i
have the ability to get around what you cannot, but I am also held
responsible for my actions where as most school kids are not. Until we are
able to hold parents and the kids that do inappropriate things responsible
for their actions then these kind of blocking things are going to happen. I
was against this kind of thing until I saw what todays kids are capable of.
You want it to change? You can make the change happen by instead of being
pissed at the school board, get pissed at your fellow classmates that are
making this kind of thing necassary.

Vern Green

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[mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Igor Izyumin Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 7:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Getting SSH around despotic firewalls


On Wednesday 13 February 2002 20:47, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:
> Ian Monroe wrote:
> > At Rock Bridge HS, the new filtering program/firewall started bannning
> > all ports except 80. This is a problem, as it is handy being able to SSH
> > into mlug.missouri.edu to check my mail.
> >
> > One solution to this would be to power on my computer at home with SSH
> > listening to port 80 (and from there I could SSH anywhere), but that
> > would be a hassle. Is there an easier way?
>
> Do you mean they block even the high-numbered ports? Does your home
> computer connect to the Internet through Rock Bridge network? Please
> clarify.
No, we are trying to connect to outside machines via port 22 from school,
and
the firewall blocks everything outgoing except port 80 and 443.  Dunno about
high-numbered ports, but I don't think they work, either.  I could try, I
suppose, but I think that's the whole purpose - to block standard proxies.
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