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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. phantom784 · 1790641872 · focus · HN ↗

      I did this in high school. I hosted an SSH server at home on port 443 so it'd get through the school's filtering, then tunneled in and connected with VNC.

      Only time I got yelled at was when the teacher saw the SSH window open and yelled at me for being in the command line. So I changed the colors to black text on a white background and they never said anything again.

      1. djmips · 1790659490 · focus · HN ↗

         terminal were the OG dark mode. Nice hack to get around that!

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