[LM_NET] article...kids and web filters

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Kids outsmart Web filters

interesting article...   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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http://msn-cnet.com.com/Kids+outsmart+Web+filters/2009-1041_3-6062548.html?part=msn-cnet&subj=ns_3-6062548&tag=tg_home



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mary gavlik
chuckey-doak middle school
afton, tn

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of a book.      -Robert Cormier

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