bigguy

Hey yall, my school has a blocker that the state runs. My teacher said that if the school had it's own blocker the state might turn it off. So I'm gonan try to make one so the state will stop monitoring us and we can unblock some of the sites that we need. So here if my question(s)

1. How could I check to see if the website being visited has offensive material in it?
2. Should I make this client/server app or just run the program on the client?

Thats it for now, but I'm sure I'll have some more. lol Thanks yall

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I don't think its that easy dude. Doesn't it all come from a third party program/company? Trying to filter out what is good and bad based on source code (or address) isn't going to give you proper results. But, I could be mistaken. I think this is all going to have to go through some type of gateway to work decently. Not much else I can say. But, good luck

big_k105

I think for the most part most of the blockers use a blacklist that is always being updated. which is probably the easiest way to go about it. My idea would be to setup a proxy server and then have the firewall automaticly send all web traffic through the proxy and then use a blacklist and a redirector plugin you can get for squid and have it redirect all inappropriate sites back to the schools website or maybe to google or something.

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coldDeath

A thing that I know my schools blocker does is it scans a page for inappropriate material, eg. porn

This could be quite easy, just search through the source file and see if any of the words are in "badwords.txt".

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Pizentios

Simple fix to see all the blocked sites that you want. Simple type:

http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com

into your address bar, replacing www.forbiddensite.com with the site that you want to go to. The only way that the content blocker would block the site is if looks at the address bar. It's like using google as a proxy.

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I got an even better idea. Install Tor on your computers or your gateway, and then set up your Internet browser or gateway to use it.

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