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1. cyanf · 1790638638 · focus · HN ↗

   On the topic of bypassing school restrictions.

   Every day, for his last 2 years of high school my sibling remoted into the KasmVNC server he has at home.

   This was during a time when sysadmins were keen against any new circumventions. New methods usually gets blocked within the week. To keep it hidden, he had it behind a <something_academic_sounding>.org domain.

   What did he do with absolute freedom? Mostly browse HN and Twitter.

   If anyone at Kasm happens upon this, thanks for improving lives :)

   1. empath75 · 1790644941 · focus · HN ↗

      When i was around 13 the local news did a story about a school system BBS, and I happened to have a pen in hand when it flashed the number on the screen briefly, and it turned out to be a dedicated line for teachers. The thing is teachers never actually used it and there was a very active community of kids that dialed in on their own number. They were on a time limit though and I eventually shared the teacher line with a lot of them so we could chat 24-7. It was one of the few multiline BBS’s at the time so it ended up being kind of an HQ for people trading pirated software and stuff after the number spread around. I don’t think school staff ever looked at it.

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