Creepy

I found out the other day that the schoolboard blocks access to antikeylogger sites. I'm creeped out.

 

The schools I went to or was around when younger. Obviously didn't track stuff. Because each year"the internet" was terrible for kids. They do so many things bad and act up and do horrible things.. and never was introuble.. so I figure they had nothing.. Cept coming around *if you know whos doing that tell them to knock it off*:-D

 

When I was in school, we had a computer in the library that you could get to a BBS on. I still don't really know what that means, but it was very, very basic, and lots of fun to play the dumb games, and talk with other people from the area. I don't know if the school knew it was there or not. Dial-up only though, back then.. not too long ago either. High School class of '97.

 

Back when I was in High School, the Internet hadn't made such an impact.(Class of '69)

 

I don't think Al Gore invented it until the mid 70's LOL

 

There were some "computers" as they were called in the language classrooms, but that was all(darn the luck).

 

At least most of you young ones had the opportunity to learn something about computers at school or at least heard of the word "computer".

D*rn, when I was a young teen my 10 year older sister was working in the "hollerith" dept of some company and I didn't even know what that word meant.

First time I saw a computer room at a company, I was in my mid twenties and brrrrrr was it ever cold in there..... The computers were really humongeous at that time.

Got my first PC at age 61. :-D and had to learn it virtually all on my own and am still learning a lot here.

 

They were still phasing out the Slide Rule when I was at college:-o. My elder brothers got it worse, with the dreaded Log Books.

 

Hmmm - Fortran and punch cards and you had to be a senior.
(Way back machine time.)

 

It's probably safe to assume that all public computers are logged to make sure you're not doing anything untoward.

Plus they have to get funds from somewhere and stealing cardnumbers works well.

 

We had a great computer lab in college, he had us fix the PCs, forget the guys name that ran it but most of the time he had a group of us fixing stuff, was funny but taught us a lesson, kids break it - you fix it. Think I was suppose to be learning Excel or something of that sort, not PC repair but I passed

btw most co. owned PCs are monitored and can be used against you, it's their PC, bandwidth and you're being paid to work/learn, real life and school is preparing you for it?

 

One of the tech teachers said not to do any online banking on school computers.

 

Good advise, I have one PC that is my "secure" and only use CC or bank on it... public PCs are not for personal info and unless you know how to secure them, they can be an accident waiting to happen.

 

i sometimes think that i actually am more qualified than our school "tech guy"...

i just found out yesterday that encyclopedia dramatica wasn't blocked, and that website has some of the worst stuff on the entire internet gathered into one place.

 

I do believe that's the first time I've heard you being serious. Now I'm scared

 

i cant say im suprised schools are becoming desprate to stop kids from doing what they consider bad stuff on their computers the only problem is they are at a disadvantage because the kids are younger and can learn this stuff easier so the schools never truly stand a chance all it takes is one smart kid and they are down for the count

 

I always used a proxy/circumventor when accessing anything that used one of my passwords.

 

I once got in trouble for using Firefox when the teacher said to use IE.

 

i once got in trouble with my uncle for using IE because he said that it's "a patchwork of holes and backdoors" that only the fools of the world use.

 

I found out why so many sites are blocked at school --

According to the tech, the schoolboard just gets a list from a company. They don't even bother to look it over.

 

I'm sure the admins look at their firewall http block lists Amy. Any good admin does.

 

I am no expert on the matter, but I would assume the system works something like this:

A company makes a block list
The schoolboard buys it and sends it to the techs, with a note saying that they must use the list in full

The admins have no choice in the matter.

 

And the odds are pretty good that the sites on the list aren't just there because someone doesn't like them. They probably are either XXX or time-wasting sites (Facebook, eBay) that you shouldn't need to access from a school computer during school hours when you're supposed to be doing school work.

Maybe I'm an old fart now, but it seems reasonable to me that they would block you from going to places that are contrary to what you're there to be studying/learning.

Keylogging is a fact of life. I have a program on my machine that I activate whenever my niece uses it. She's 13, and her mother doesn't trust her to have an internet connection in the house, but she needs to use it for school. So, when she can't get to the library she comes here. I don't look over her shoulder (much), but I do log where she's been. I'm probably more lenient than my sister, but I've still caught her in a couple of places she had no business being.

 

Well, the ironic thing I found is that you can access facebook on the school computers without any proxies. But not this site (which I was trying to show the English teacher).

 

I find it surprising you can access Facebook, but not that you can't access a site that actively promotes NOT reading from a school computer.

 

We had to learn binary logic gates before we could mess around on the painting program.

Oh and SPREADSHEETS!You'd think they were training us up a for spreedsheet war with another school the amount we did.

"Get back in your chair and give me 10 more spreedsheets BOY!"

Writing your name on the brick wall with the spray paint can then printing it off:-D