[LM_NET] Kids outsmart Web filters

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

Just in case this was news to you.

Nancy

Kids outsmart Web filters

By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: April 19, 2006 4:00 AM PST
Last November, Ryan, a high-school sophomore, figured out a way to outsmart
the Web filters on a school PC in order to visit the off-limits MySpace.com
while doing "homework" in the computer lab.
A teacher eventually spotted the social network on the screen in front of
"Ryan," a fictitious name for a real student attending school in Phoenix,
Ore., a small town with a population of about 5,000. The teacher flagged the
activity for the school's technology expert, who then followed Ryan's tracks
online through the school network.
Ryan had apparently set up a so-called Web proxy from his home computer so
that when he was at school, he could direct requests for banned sites like
MySpace through a Web address at home, thereby tricking the school's filter.
(Web, or CGI, proxies can be Web sites or applications that allow users to
access other sites through them.)

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Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyberbully.org
nwillard@csriu.org

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Cruelty, Threats, and Distress, a resource for educators, is now available
online at http://cyberbully.org.

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