QUOTE(omghai @ May 17, 2007, 09:04 PM)

OK so the New South Wales Department of Education has decided to put a block on every website, even educational websites. Google images is blocked for juniours, so they have no access to images. An example, late last year for physical education, we had to research drugs and atleast 60% of the websites were blocked as they were considered to be "inappropriate". Peers and I have been trying for the past months to find the best Proxy website because there is no other way around it. One day we will find a proxy website, the next day we will try to access it and it well be blocked. We started to delete the cookies to avoid the schools discovering these proxys, yet still they are blocking every website they come across. I have tried every single website linked here, none of the above work. Our system has bascially been shutdown, what is the use of having computers at school?
Is there ANY way around it?
Depends on what sort of skills you have... There are ways to accomplishing anything, it just depends on how far you want to go. Schools and the majority of integrated systems have rather cookie cutter programs that are used to control and monitor internet activities. Because of this simple but effective approach, a loophole in one system can be found in another system.
This is for two reasons, #1 modern computer security design policy is all the same, #2 They all use the same or similar programs.
However, although the IT administators may be as dumb as wood the program itself can be fairly intelligent. So if say one person found a loophole in a school internet administration program, you could very well find the same loophole in your own schools administration system. So if you were to say, search for loopholes in internet filtration programs, you would be off to a good start, comprehende?
Okay, so lets say that this mean ol program keeps blocking your nice proxies hmm? What you need to do is find out the protocol for safe listed sites. Once you know how a program determines a safe site you can either find a proxy to meet these specifications or build your own. This can be done by either finding which program your school uses and then finding the tech specs on it or by trial and error.
I guarentee you IT administrators cannot watch over every site you visit, so instead a program will have a set list of things it checks for. Just make sure your proxy doesnt have any of those things and your set. Also, one of the 'bad' words for that program is probably proxy itself.
Find some sites that are safelisted, copy and paste their content and sneakily get your proxy. These programs just work off a list of sorts and once you know whats on that list, its pretty easy.