RE: [MLUG] Getting SSH around despotic firewalls

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, F Vernon Green wrote:

> I work at the Santa Paula School District here in California. The
> blocking is a result of the Federal Children Internet Protection Act.

I wonder how much danger the internet has really created for children.
Let's face it.  This is the kind of crap that happens when no one will
stand againts it for fear of being called a pedophile.  It will certainly
cause more problems than it will solve.  Kids who want to do some sort of
sexy chat with grownups (or whatever it is they are trying to prevent)
will just do it from home instead.


> It basically says that all internet traffic, both web and e-mail has
> to be filtered for content.

What do those filters do?  Do they detect sexual content or something?


> Bottom line is that unless you have some stupid administrators at your
> district that are going to allow you to bypass all their protections,
> anything you want to do at school is going to be filtered and or read
> by someone else.

They are allowing port 443 traffic -- isn't that encrypted?  How do they
filter it?

Why can't the guys use their port 80 ssh idea to get around the firewall?
They have sshd listen on port 80 on their Linux box at home and they run
PuTTY at school and direct it to port 80.  I don't think the
administrators have to be stupid to be fooled.  Also, if they are just
following rules, maybe they don't mind if people like Igor get around them
to check their e-mail using ssh.

Mike

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