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i19.tinypic.com — Thousands of schools in the US use the BESS filtering system. The nice people at Secure Computing decided that digg.com should be blocked. Send an email to service@securecomputing.com, and tell them to stop blocking digg.

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  • sungam3D, on 10/12/2007, -21/+253This same thing happend to my school.

    I just all my mates to send like the rudest letter to the curriculum council stating that it was a technology news website and that I used it for computing all the time. It was immediately unblocked.

    I Digg this!
    • coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -14/+214Good idea, but unfortunately no one else uses digg at my school so I'd be the only one emailing them.
    • sungam3D, on 10/12/2007, -57/+33Well theres no doubt that this will reach front page, I'm sure they will get a few thousand e-mails :P

      Come on people SAVE DIGG!!
    • AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+187They do this at my school to!

      Not only that, but they also block Sourceforge because it is Free/Shareware Software!
    • kasted, on 10/12/2007, -45/+405schools are ***** stupid
    • SurrealDream, on 10/12/2007, -81/+6afk, candlelit vigil, bbl KK! ^_^
    • Minim4c, on 10/12/2007, -99/+27I just use a proxy, lol. School computer admins are dumb, if they were any good, they would be networking at a real company and not a school.
    • EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -16/+309I would respond and digg this article, but My School blocks this website, so I'm here in spirit.
    • superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -22/+146Good thing my school thinks they are cool and uses their own filters.

      Good thing I also know the administrative username and password so I can bypass the filters and computer security settings anyway
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18@ minim4c

      pretty much every proxy is blocked at my school. cloakip.net worked for a while but then they blocked it.

      @ superal1394

      ye. I know mine to, but in the login logs (I guess that's what they're called), it tracks when the administrator logs into one of the computers designated for student use and sends and email to the tech director and he knows where everyone is... all the time....
    • robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -20/+115"Come on people SAVE DIGG!!"

      How is this honestly going to hurt digg?
      What's next? "Come on people, SAVE MYSPACE!" ?
    • gardnmi, on 10/12/2007, -24/+193Maybe its because douches like you keep taking up all the computers to do your lame web surfing you could do at home while other people need the computer for school purposes.
    • coredump0x01, on 10/12/2007, -15/+47If they don't give in, try using http://www.freetoview.net (web-based proxy) or put portable Firefox ( http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable ) with the FoxyProxy extension ( http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ ) on a USB stick ($5 for a 32mb at Target) and try one of the many proxies on http://samair.ru/proxy If that doesn't work, then TP your school's network admin's office, I recommend toilet paper wads with a little soap (sticks good).
    • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -12/+87Can I suggest you continue to go to school. Your grammar need attention.
    • Sblader5, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3www.hidemyass.com
    • superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4@nreynolds

      All the computers at my school are in the same workgroup, the computer name is the room number with an arbitrary number afterwords. The computers in our school don't collect any admissible evidence anyway because we have already proved that the logs are faulty because they rely on the system clock, which is always wrong because the security settings block it from accessing the internet and reseting itself or the user from fixing the time. I did this when they tried to claim that I had been installing some worm on the (still) SP1 XP machines, while all I had been installing was Firefox 2.
    • TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -17/+32They always tell me to get off Digg in the library at lunch. They don't understand that I'm reading news. I don't know why they would be discouraging kids from staying up to date on current stuff.
    • mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -12/+54"schools are ***** stupid"

      school ADMINISTRATORS are ***** stupid*

      seriously, when can we draw a line on what is PC and what isn't

      the way i see it, they see a site like digg and think, "oh, a user-run content" site, there's gonna be porn!

      we have to stop assuming that we can stop EVERY possible port for anything that we don't like.
    • mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -12/+86On another note, my high school had a filtering program called SOS, to bypass it, I :

      1. Downloaded the shareware version on my home computer, found the registry key that had the "encrypted" password.

      2. Set my own admin password on my home computer, looked at the registry key again. Exported said registry key.

      3. Made fake site that looked exactly like yahoo.com, except that a single link on the page was actually a link to download said exported registry key.

      4. Went to school, told a few friends, went to fake yahoo.com, imported registry key, bam, full admin to filtering software.
    • knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -20/+7mmazing:

      While your philosophy is correct, it's unfortunate (or fortunate depending on your stance) that there's daily titties on digg so your theory is incorrect.
    • shibz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+41maybe you should be paying attention in class instead of reading digg!

      haha jk I never paid attention either... just run a SSH server on your home PC... make sure you have the port forwarded and open on your firewall/router and tunnel though it from school using PuTTY and portable firefox. It takes like 5 minutes to set up and 5 seconds to connect to at school.

      OpenSSH: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103886&package_id=111688
      PuTTY: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
      Portable firefox: google it!

      This is a nice guide that explains how to tunnel it after you have your SSH server all set up
      http://thinkhole.org/wp/2006/05/10/howto-secure-firefox-and-im-with-putty/
    • mmazing, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37"that's true. unfortunately there's daily titties on digg so your theory is incorrect."

      well, who cares about titties, im gay!
    • mississippiman, on 10/12/2007, -11/+31I work at a school, and i do block PARTS of digg (mainly the games) other than that i don't see why they would do it. Digg is full of useful info.

      but yeah, gotta block the games
    • Windows9d8, on 10/12/2007, -36/+1@ "All the computers at my school are in the same workgroup, the computer name is the room number with an arbitrary number afterwords. The computers in our school don't collect any admissible evidence anyway because we have already proved that the logs are faulty because they rely on the system clock, which is always wrong because the security settings block it from accessing the internet and reseting itself or the user from fixing the time. I did this when they tried to claim that I had been installing some worm on the (still) SP1 XP machines, while all I had been installing was Firefox 2." Quote


      System clocks are run by a small battery on the motherboard. The do not update via internet.
    • kagelump, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21i think our school network admins all read digg
      so its not blocked here :D (same with slashdot and neopets)
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -8/+64I think they're completely justified in their blocking. Sex, nudity, midget fights, vulgarity, links to illegal downloads, etc frequent digg all the time. You might not have a problem with those things, but schools have certain guidelines they need to follow. Digg might occasionally have stuff that could be useful to a school, but as a social bookmarking site, that means that all of these resources can be found elsewhere. To a school, the bad outweighs the good.
    • sjm20k, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47I'd be happy if the blocked digg on my campus - I waste a lot of time reading the most mind numbingly stupid ***** on here to kill time, and regardless of how dumb I know it is, I can't stop looking so I'd love it if someone just shut me out.
    • Motocompo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2I use VNC through a Java Applet (realVNC) on my server to circumvent most blockings. I have yet to encounter a network that blocks the VNC ports.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Maybe this is why Digg's traffic has dropped considerably over the last 3-4 months. Almost 25%
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3"Maybe this is why Digg's traffic has dropped considerably over the last 3-4 months. Almost 25%"

      If that number is true, it's more likely the loss of top users from the removal of the top user list, the significant decrease in stuff you never would have found elsewhere on the internet, a huge increase in political stories, a huge increase in lame commenting like "will it blend" and "that isn't a hair question", etc.
    • S4MF1SHER, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23@monergism

      "Me fail english? That's unpossible."
    • Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -13/+35This is an outrage! Perposterous!
      Hey wait... why the ***** are you on digg at school?
      Do your ***** work.
      Last thing I needed at school was another distraction.
      I love digg, but do your damn work first.
    • iMyst, on 10/12/2007, -24/+12This is why Digg is banned...

      ***** ***** goddammit ***** penis penis penis vagina viagra penis
    • Software2, on 10/12/2007, -12/+16"This is why Digg is banned..."

      OMG! You said "is"!
    • spadgos, on 10/12/2007, -5/+45so there's going to be less "omgwtfbbq" kiddies on digg? what exactly is the problem here?
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4They blocked Digg at my school too during the beginning of last year. I actually managed to get it unblocked after having an hour conversation with the librarian who finally managed to get in touch with the district to unblock it.

      Then it was blocked AGAIN the next week. At that point I had given up and I've been forced to use Duggmirror.com ever since. (WHICH STILL ISN'T BLOCKED! (??)
    • felderado, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Real school administrators use Dansguardian.

      I saved a school district $4,000 annually by implementing Dansguardian with a trick to make it talk to Netware's eDirectory via LDAP for proxy authentication of students.

      Basically, I owned their asses and I knew any website that any student went to.

      On the other hand, I could care less what they were doing as long as they werent looking up porn or games. Both of which 99.99% were blocked. I just caught them TRYING to find it.

      Basically, if it got past my filter rule set, it was probably OK.

      But that's why I had live logs to check out periodically. Kept me up to date on what's getting blocked that wasnt supposed to be, too.
    • p337, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26Use duggmirror.com? or, you know... do school work since there is no justification for having digg in school.
    • TOTALineptitude, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27I ride the short bus.

      None of my classmates know what digg is. Or how to get dressed in the morning. We all have downs. Yay.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4"Use duggmirror.com? or, you know... do school work since there is no justification for having digg in school."

      Yeah? How about you get a ***** life that has more worth than the pleasure you obtain from dictating what you believe is justified information for students to have access to. This isn't China. The library isn't categorized into "school-related" literary works and "BLOCKED ACCESS" sections. I'm a god damn individual and I am fully capable of deciding what is relevant to my educational interests and what is useless rhetoric. Your comments do nothing but to stifle the free sources that should be available to students like me.

      Now kindly go play with your cats and leave us alone.
    • KIERANMULLEN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19Where will I get HDR images?
    • srg13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"They do this at my school to!

      Not only that, but they also block Sourceforge because it is Free/Shareware Software!"

      Same here. We have the same filter at our school, and it blocks Wikipedia (you can get to it at http://en.wikipedia.org though), and anything Open Source, like mysql.com, apache.org etc. It classes Open Source as "freeware/shareware".
    • TomP, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4They done this to my college proxy too, so we use duggtrends
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2I should mention that my school doesn't use Bess, but it still pisses me off.
    • RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Yeah schools are over rated, hey everyone lets boycott schools because they're ***** stupid

      insert sarcasm here, here, and here.
    • dyvbond, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5At my school here, digg isn't blocked. And all the macs have firefox on them as well as safari.
    • seanthebond, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1ITs blocked at mine and I have no way to get by it because they use NETSWEEPER and most proxies are blocked.
    • lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13@Windows9d8

      You are absolutely retarded.
    • Killah_xxx, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Well said, lickmygiggle, well said.
      Windows9d8, next time bring a clue!
    • TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It is because of the language. If I read the comments at school, I have to make sure my students are not around, or make sure I have content filtering on and I am logged in.

      Eric Wilson
    • Doggpound, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Here is my email to the company:

      Why would you block digg.com with your smartfilter? Would you block other news and information sites such as NBC, ABC, or Google? Digg.com is one of the biggest and most visited news / information sites on the web and blocking it only means that their is nothing smart about your filter.
    • danjal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13sorry piss off alot of people, but your at school to learn, not to digg.
    • geoken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"I think they're completely justified in their blocking. Sex, nudity, midget fights, vulgarity, links to illegal downloads, etc frequent digg all the time. You might not have a problem with those things, but schools have certain guidelines they need to follow. Digg might occasionally have stuff that could be useful to a school, but as a social bookmarking site, that means that all of these resources can be found elsewhere. To a school, the bad outweighs the good."

      If you can't stop the source, then it makes no sense to stop a site linking to the source. Going by that logic every search engine would have to be blacklisted.
    • scootinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My school uses NetSpective as their filtering system. I could access Digg until one day it became classified as "Anonymous Proxy/Hacking" for whatever reason. I emailed NetSpective and told them about this problem and Digg was unblocked within a few days.

      I've had other problems with their filter as well - for instance a site that I owned was classified as porn for whatever reason; I see no way that it could have been seen as even remotely related to porn. I emailed them and they had taken care of that too.

      So don't underestimate what power a calm, nice, and professional letter can do.
    • EmberX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11The reason it get's blocked is because it's a user based system and content is created by users, there is no way to verify that the information and links on the site are "safe". Stop complaining and start using the computer lab properly.
    • Archeologist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1www.duggmirror.com isn't blocked though. So what's the point? OR could someone send a request to East Penn School District for me?
    • GoBack2Europe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2community college ftw!
    • Emanji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Doesn't help when you have God of War porno, Atheistism, and Anti-Government posts all over the front page :) It's funny because their network techs or admins are probably sitting in the server room bypassing everything and surfing Diggs as we speak lol. Most of the time it's the Corporate people that decided which sites to block, the local IT and Admins rarely have anything to do with servers configuration.
    • mtomovich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2We have websense at our school. To get around it, we use firefox, and in the advance settings in the network tab, we select 'auto detect ports' and that seems to work on most computers, but not all.
    • b-dizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@kagelump
      Your network administrators play neopets? WTF?
    • DieselDaddy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12Its blocked because Digg IS NOT a "Technology News Site" as some claim. It may have started as that, but it is now just a platform to spew Atheism, liberal propaganda, anti-war/Bush rhetoric and other counter-culture topics. Granted, the occasional Nintendo Wii or Apple iPhone article might pop-up. However, Digg has largely been taken over by political zealots. I can understand the blocking and the drop in traffic.
    • gall0249, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why do people keep saying that Digg is not a news source? How is it possibly a news source?
    • veggiemoore, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yeah, I'm reading this from school.
    • tarr2468, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Same story here, used to be blocked, got it unblcked.
      I'm posting this in class actually.
    • Kingslasher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm in favor of schools blocking Digg. There is inappropriate content and far too many kids on here already.
    • FishPoisonCon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1monergism: Your grammar need attention


      lol... this is what happens when you digg at school!
    • cbasst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They have every right to block it. I waste too much time on it while I'm at school anyway...


      Same thing happened to fark, and nobody outcried over that.
    • iggmods, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0AT coollettuce :
      I believed so too until i found they were using this tool
      http://digg.com/security/PryingEyes_walking_in_Defeat_em_with_2clicks_with_this_32kb_portable_app

      hint: look at the green icon in your taskbar after executing the program, click it to hide pr0n
    • BassJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@shibz

      Thats my preferred technique for proxy avoidance! the other thing I'd recommend is a getting an account with one of the dynamic DNS sites, so you can access your home router from a fixed address rather then an IP address that could possibly change! I use this technique and tunnel just about everything I do on the net through my home connection when I'm on various sites, so I can get connected on IM and get my e-mail regardless, the only time it doesn't work is when I can't get a connection to my home address but that hasn't happened very often atm as it just looks like a SSL connection to a website :-)

      I think this whole blocking Digg sucks arse tho! I guess they will also block slashdot and del.ico.us aswell as surely they fall in teh same category! Might also wanna check out urlbrowse.com ! another web based proxy by passer!
    • theshiz892, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3im at my school looking at digg right now, so its all ok here, suckers, muhahahahahha
    • aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@dieseldaddy

      "Its blocked because Digg IS NOT a "Technology News Site" as some claim. It may have started as that, but it is now just a platform to spew Atheism, liberal propaganda, anti-war/Bush rhetoric and other counter-culture topics. Granted, the occasional Nintendo Wii or Apple iPhone article might pop-up. However, Digg has largely been taken over by political zealots. I can understand the blocking and the drop in traffic."

      Yes, heaven forbid we "spew" Atheism, or speak a word against the war or Bush. If anything, I want our children learning about these -other- views.
    • thunderer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My school is pretty good about leaving thinngs unblocked. They block five things:
      1. Porn - Yeah, I can understand that
      2. Proxies - So you can't get to aforementioned porn
      3/4. Myspace/Facebook - Last year there were kiddies planning to blow up the school via Myspace, so...
      5. Te downloading anything with the extension .torrent - Their bandwidth sucks
    • dani8559, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I ran into problems like this when I was in high school, oh so long ago...

      I was studying Virgil's Aeneid, and when I would try to load up passages, it would block the content as adult/explicit. Why? It had too many instances of the word "cum," which means "with" in Latin. No kidding.
      Also, I ended up taking an independent study in Art History with one of the Librarians, and the "computer lab" was in our Library. When I first started, I dove into Greek and Roman sculpture. Many of the more popular sites were also blocked as explicit, because, oh my gosh, the sculptures were anatomically correct. I'm talking Gardner's online companion, everything under http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html ... basically, it was nudity never existed in art.

      Our admins also blocked email, which meant that if you had to save a file larger than a floppy disk (pagemaker files for the school's newspaper, for instance), you couldn't email it to yourself. This was before flash drives.

      We also had a lunch hour where we were free to use the computers. So yes, I was in high school to learn, but I also had free time where I would like to think I could have read technology news. We're not talking about 12 year olds here.

      Fortunately, most librarians are anarchists. When I figured a way around the school's firewall (getting internet options through the browser's help menu and shutting *off* the proxy they had), they would show students how to get around blockages when they had to do something. This lasted for at least two years, when I graduated, because I think the restrictions were mostly for liability issues.

      I don't go to Bob Jones, so my college doesn't block any content. However, being an Informatics major, my professors strongly recommend keeping up on digg, and find some of their coolest tools and newer tutorials through here.

      I dedicate this comment to all the pricks who say that high school kids shouldn't be using digg.
    • Bartboy919, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bess blows, but there are ways around it.

      my new favorite is http://bpadv.azncrackers.com/remote01/

      but I also use http://www.grab.cc
    • Xspire, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1lol I am typing this at school. in fact the only time I use digg is at school. well sometimes I use it at home. considering youtube doesn't work here.
    • Rekzai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My school doesnt block the submitted stories it just blocks the digg homepage so i use the rss feed
    • tyho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am the network admin where I work and I have thought of blocking Digg myself. I lose too much productivity on this damn site. It's a weakness.
    • Rainbow101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they blocked it at my school. Categorized it as gambling??
    • Lasker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1High schoolers blocked? Sounds great. Anything to bring up the maturity level of this mac-worshipping, anti-american, left-wing ***** of a community.
    • retral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With all the NSFW crap that's posted.. I can see why it's blocked.

      In fact, when I browse Digg at school (it was blocked, but I've got a friend who works for the school's IT).. I can't help but feel worried that links I'm clicking on are going to have pr0n banners, or otherwise unsafe stuff for me to be accessing at school.
    • PeterBWiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Marisa Miller + iPod minus clothing = ...

      Yah... that would be the sort of stories that get digg on a list like this.

      If a story is NSFW then its probably not safe to be seen at school either.
    • TridenTBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think noobs just need to learn how to use proxies and a flash drive.(Portable firefox + proxy = joy)
    • ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Kingslasher:
      Yeah, it's all about the kids!
  • sungam3D, on 10/12/2007, -6/+61Sent em an e-mail last night, heres the reply.

    Hello,

    http://www.digg.com is correctly categorized as Computing/Internet. If your organization is blocking this category, then you will be denied access to the site.

    Please contact your system administrator to unblock the site locally.

    Thank you.

    SmartFilter Sites

    Secure Computing Corporation

    sites@smartfilter.com


    SO must just be ur school admins blocking this "Computing/Internet" category.
  • randall814, on 10/12/2007, -15/+8Yeah, I remember being in high school and so many good sites were blocked by Websense. ***** Websense. Digg is a huge tome of knowledge that no school of any level can teach you.

    Maddox says it better than I: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense
    • soupir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22"Digg is a huge tome of knowledge that no school of any level can teach you."

      I love Digg and everything, but that's just silly. The "Internets" are the huge tome of knowledge, and they can still access that. "No school of any level." That's good. That's real good.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25The very fact that you think that Digg is a huge tome of knowledge is the reason why you need to spend LESS time doing crap while at school and more time preparing yourself for the life of reality.
    • epiccollision, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3***** maddox...low brow loser
    • duxxyuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Websense is horrible. I hate/deplore/despise any kind of filtering on my internet access. Why should any other person in the world decide what I look at.
    • Schrodinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Maddox does have his moments

      "Oh no, Lexmark has banned me? Good riddance. Every Lexmark printer I've ever used has been a piece of *****. One time I was trying to print a picture of me so I could give it to a friend to cheer him up after he was diagnosed with cancer, but the printer jammed, and my friend died. Thanks for nothing, assholes."
  • gangals, on 10/12/2007, -17/+3It's called a Web Proxy! If the free ones are blocked then run your own. Stop crying becuase you are too stupid to "hack" as you lame wads call it.
    • bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23If you are caught using a proxy at my school your account will be suspended. They blocked digg.com and there is nothing I can do but complain. I do not think that will be possible since my school even blocks freakin wikipedia.

      atleast when you are surfing you do not get a big red ACESS DENIED message with a black background. Before you had to close the explorer to be able to go back and everyone would know you went somewhere you were not supposed to.
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3LOL Explorer.
      Portable Firefox for the win!
      http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
    • stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@iamcitizen: Definitely. If they don't like that sort of thing, skin it to look like IE, i think most schools still use IE6. Its much better than using the actual thing.
      Foxyproxy is also useful.
  • chipitople, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4i think my school uses lightspeed or something like that--how do i set up my own proxy?
    • TriZz, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6Google will help your soul: http://www.ghacks.net/2006/04/07/setting-up-your-own-proxy-server/

      PS: This is not spam. Just the first result of a Google search.
    • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8To circumvent your education's security system please graduate first. Then I'll tell you.
    • damentz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2First things that come to mind are 'https://proxify.com' and 'https;//flyproxy.com'

      If anyone has any better ones, please post them.

      PS, use portable firefox with adblock for proxify, they are giant ads that can get you caught if the admins screen hack you.
    • Whoblah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Why are people posting lame links to "hidemyass" and the like?
      Seriously, have you ever heard of tunneling? Just get a free shell provider (make sure they allow tunneling), and use MindTerm (ssh client.. google it) to tunnel traffic around this crap.
    • synned, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SSH won't work, at least at my school. They block port numbers AND protocols :(.
      Anyone know why digg.com looks so weird through a proxy server?
      http://moo.gamefarts.com
      username screw
      password you
      just type the URL Into the google search.
    • dadiggdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1a good option is to use JAP, though it notably decreases your connection speed. its easy to install and to use. just google it like that.
      ;-)
  • Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Blocked at my school. *****! I use duggmirror.com tho.
    • chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My school blocks wikipedia, digg, slashdot and a multitude of other useful sites. www.proxy.org is my friend.
    • sldSquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My school uses Websense for blocking... It's absolutely terrible. I can browse Myspace and Digg, but pretty much everything else is blocked. I was searching for current event articles for Health, and upon visiting NYTimes.com, it said category "Health" was blocked, but I could view it for 2 minutes.

      Later then I was searching for the source of an image I used in Web Design, and found out YTMND was "Illegal/Questionable". I lol'd at that one.
  • reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40how are you surprised? digg is a crossection of the internet. which include sites that schools dont want children to access, for ether time wasting or inappropriate content
    • AndrewDavies, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3software2 - So does google, yahoo, etc. That's the internet. That's the free flow of information. Of course we want to protect kids, but I don't see how saying, "for schools the bad outweighs the good". For one, it is not about what is best for schools, it's about what is best for students. Not always the same the same thing. What can cause problems for schools (by making life more complicated for administrators or by costing money) might actually be good for students.
  • vaduzl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20All children should have right to post ***** statements that get dugg down .

    Im just kidding We here at Digg are a warm supporting place of assholes
  • yeskia, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Just use an IP based forwarder... I use http://www.network8.org/circumvent - It takes a web address and forwards you to that server's IP address so that keyword-based blockers don't stop it. Only works on major sites though, but Digg is one of them!
  • riah, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Has anyone else tried to search Digg recently?
    "Digg is experiencing a high volume of traffic right now. Please try your search again later."

    Digg dugg??? :O
    • ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I've seen that bug. Just search again and it's fine.
    • riah, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Hmm, went through once for me, but _only_ once in the last fifteen minutes. Meh, google:site.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Get it all the time. Along with being logged out every 3 minutes.

      It is because Digg is as poorly coded as MySpace.

      Perhaps worse. They get far less traffic, but stil can't handle it.
  • rpaturi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13Why would some one need Digg at school ? I would block it if it interfears with normal activities. Infact It is blocked in some companies too (along with slashdot and reddit) as people were wasting time on these sites. PS I like digg/reddit though I have atleast 20 or so most valuable sites out of digg/reddit which I would not have gone to otherwise.
  • kamikazicondon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4its not blocked at my school...thank god

  • PaulGriffin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5My High School uses the same internet blocking service. Oddly enough, Digg and Penny-Arcade are not blocked (sites i browse daily at school...not to mention a bunch of students check out Digg because of me.) Wikipedia was blocked last week. It became unblocked a few days later though...according to many public school teachers, since anyone can edit it; It's a Blog!
    • adubyailkinson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1being a public school teacher doesn't guarantee ANY IT knowlegde whatsoever.
  • phlux, on 10/12/2007, -5/+50I will likely be dugg down to hell...

    I do not have any problem with this. As much as many people would like to deny it information aggregation sites such as digg, slashdot and others do in fact have a marked negative impact on productivity - especially to IT/tech news hungry individuals.

    I have actually seriously thought about blocking digg and slashdot and other tech based sites for my entire company and we have 100K employees.

    (yes I have the authority to do so)

    I love digg. I love news. I love learning.

    I would suggest the next evolution of these sites is to take advantage of people spending so much time on sites such as digg and focus on training. Intermix a bit of news/tech/fun info with teaching someone a skill and you will own online attention (amongst geeks)

    • Xanadude, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I don't know of any companies that do this, but I've always thought it would be a good idea to set up a recreational websurfing room, where you can go *on your break* to surf whatever you want (well, except child porn and Paris Hilton fansites). And it would be unlogged, free of any corporate snooping. But when you're at your desk, stuff like Digg, Slashdot, Fark, etc. is totally locked out.
    • phlux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I dont know why you were dugg down - that is a great idea.

      For example we have foos ball tables as a cheap effort at "corporate culture building" - in my 3 years at this company I have never *once* seen any user of the foos ball table.

      In 99 we had foos - and it was used a lot.

      I think a web rec room would be a great idea.

      The only thing I can see that would work against such a thing is the fact that the vast majority of our users have laptops... meaning that they are mobile and wifi etc... so they can always seclude themselves for whatever.

      however some divisions are much much more restricted in their use of the machine (space, DoD, etc...)


    • drakino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Would the theoretical rise in productivity counter the likely lowering of morale that would occur if you blocked such sites in the work place? While I'm sure there are those people who spend way too much time surfing at work, most people still manage to do their jobs just fine. Blocking web sites also doesn't prevent people from bringing books to read, or a newspaper, both similar distractions.

      I thankfully have never worked in an environment that represses web surfing. And considering my reviews have usually been quite decent, the unfiltered access doesn't seem to be affecting my performance in the work place.
    • coollettuce, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Well I'd like to be able to use digg during my independent study web design class (basically they had to make a class for me because there wasn't a hard enough computer class). Most of the time I just sit around and don't do anything so I would be more productive if digg was unblocked.
  • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -23/+76Reasons to filter Digg.

    1. Profanity
    2. Anti-American propaganda.
    3. Religious Intolerance
    4. Illegal activities encouraged: not limited to piracy, rights abuse and vandalism.
    5. Zero benefit to the education system.
    • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5Before people whine about free speech, American public schools are products of the US Government and should promote upright citizens.
    • karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -14/+46. monergism's input
    • tyler71, on 10/12/2007, -11/+66.) links to pages with information (other then wikipedia)
      7.) real news about CURRENT events

      thank god they blocked it at my school. i mean now my resources are ether look at a blue screen denying access to any website i wish to view, or books from 1980 talking about how computers will change the world. its sad and ridiculous.
    • R313453, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Monergism, I think you're getting your lists mixed up. That list isn't what Digg is about, it's what I did to your mother last night.
    • rob3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14What's wrong with anti-America propaganda being shown to your people? Are you just afraid that people in the USA might find out how much half of the world actually hates them or is it something else? Isn't stopping anti-America propaganda a lot like the Chinese government's policy on blocking anything anti their government? The nation of the free huh?
    • mt066, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Maybe because depending on what level of the education system students are in, they might not be able to fully understand what is being discussed, or that a lot of that is just stupid flaming or irrational behavior. People don't want their kids growing up to be ashamed of themselves while they are still in developmental stages. Certainly not from school at least.
    • dustymuffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I love digg - but I'm quick to admit that most of what's here is nonsense.
    • monergism, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3rob3,

      I'm talking about US Government schools. They have a duty to reflect and encourage patriotism. Sadly the American school system is saturated with a near-communist mindset and we are seeing these results in the technological/online spheres in these last 10 years.

      As an aside:
      America is GREAT and that is why so many people on the planet want to move here and many do illegally. I love it but will agree it needs work. Thankfully we can still vote and still speak out.

  • dean2105, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3It's blocked all through the NSW (Australia) Public Schools
    • chewy5000, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2wow. it works at my private school (victoria) though

      The problem is (on a kinda unrelated note) that my school uses a proxy, so I have to switch it on at school and turn it off at home. I us FoxyProxy, so I'm just going to leave the proxy off in the IE settings (which regulate most apps) and just switch it on in firefox by clicking the little icon.

      Really easy
  • truegodofwar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Instead of using a ***** proxy you could just use something like Himachi to create a encrypted virtual tunnel out of school to the computer at your house.
  • cyliss13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I use Digg all the time, many times i use the stories here for my class reports. And my high school blocked this site last week! Curse the darn school's censorship...
  • vaduzl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Digg Assholes hate christian americans who smoke pot in 8th grade
  • alekgv, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I feel old.... I'm only 20 but no websites were blocked when I was in high school.
    • cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I would of got nothing done if we had the internet at school in the 80's. We went to the library and used the Dewey Decimal System to read books.
  • MnMs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22As much as I love digg, I really don't see any reason why the educational system would benefit from unblocking digg. School is for learning, not digging.
  • Kickboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1My school uses BESS as well, and I just accessed digg from their computers a week ago. So this must be a pretty recent change.
  • greldenax, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38You're all ***** morons. Digg isn't a news site, it has no educational value whatsoever. There's no reason not to block it.
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+33Exactly. There is no reason someone should be on digg at school. There is little purpose to be on digg during school hours unless you needed a current events article. But that can be found at other sites that aren't filled with profanity and that don't encourage piracy.
    • jeff419, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3So you're okay with the GOVERNMENT (they run the schools) blocking any websites that don't have a reason not to be blocked? You now you have to have a good reason for the GOVERNMENT to LET you have a website?

      Have we really fallen this far?
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11jeff..seriously...with each post, you are destroying a little more of your own credibility.

      When you contribute to society, and therefore pay taxes, you will have a very different idea as to how you want that money spent. I am not paying for dumb ***** like you to waste your school day on some lame site.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -9/+6No educational value whatsoever? That is total *****. Get your pessimistic egotistical ***** off my digg!
    • Philluminati, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8There are no grounds for doing this. Social debates on real events in
      both the social and technological realm are extremely important for
      personal development.

      If you lock them out it's like saying "your opinions don't matter".

      We need to encourage these people to have an (or my) opinion.

      ** ps....if your proxy is blocked try using Google Translator to translate English to English :-)
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They don't need to be on it in school. No one is taking their opinion away. They just can't do it in school
  • jeff419, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5I'd heard a lot about censorship on the internet in schools but this is ridiculous.

    All students in a school that censors the internet should STOP GOING TO SCHOOL until this is stopped.

    I honestly don't think you can get much more unAmerican than this. Censorship of ideas? That's just wrong.

    The Govt. has more than demonstrated its inability to educate our children, yet we still send them to these Govt. schools. Why? Are we that pathetic that we willingly put our children into a system that is designed to dumb them down and indoctrinate them?
    • stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Let's boycott a school because they block websites"

      Noes, websites that reduce productivity are blocked, its the end of the world!
  • Nickerz, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3sent my email.

    Only a right wing nut swinging conservative republican would block this website.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Ironically, this comment is a perfect example of why it SHOULD be blocked.
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Yeah, you're right! Kids shouldn't be allowed to have personal opinions, BAN THE INTERNET!!
  • SofaKingJon, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5Yeah digg is blocked at my school too. Bunch of fascists.
  • marcamillion, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2If Digg is blocked at this guys school...how'd he post this screenshot?

    Rhetorical question. A bit of irony. I know there are millions of ways he could have done it, but just saying.
  • Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -8/+264.88.65.5

    How are the schools in Macomb Intermediate School District?
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13It shouldn't be allowed in school. Have you read the comments? People swear like a mother *****. Besides digg isn't a good research tool other than current events which is pretty limiting. Digg should be used in ones own free time.
    • Sealab2021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Have you ever been in a school? People swear a lot more there than on digg.
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't matter if swearing exists in schools. I know it does. But schools shouldn't be allowing it to happen.
  • cyberzerocool, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2hey, I used to work at a public school in the IT dept. and I tried to get around the BESS server. It is a bitch, the only way around it is to remote desktop out.

    It sucks huh
  • snowrider221, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6just another "it's blocked at my school" comment
  • SuperMank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4That ain't bad. In NSW, sites like ninemsn.com.au, gmail.com etc are blocked because they don't want you using portal sites, and they don't want you to use any email services outside their heavily filtered one. Most proxies are blocked. You require a student login to even access the internet.
  • patto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2The smart kids will find a way around the block.
  • afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I go to a high school and they don't block digg, but honestly it's a good thing. Some people go to the library to print something for school during lunch, and if all these non-school related sites were allowed, then the limited number of computers would not be available for those who actually do work.
  • fpssledge, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1OOOOOOOOOO I HATE BESS!!!!!

    I've spent many class hours trying to get around it. Only for my methods to be blocked by the admin. Again, and again, and again.


    FREEEEEDOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!!
  • Dualkiller, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3My school in Arizona has blocked digg also, but they categorized this website as porn.
  • Griefer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1@alekgv

    Don't feel bad. I'll be 20 this year and I had to go though the schools blocking phase. You just missed it.
  • blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Ugh. I despise Bess. First year of high school you could go practically anywhere. Each year more and more sites were blocked, by senior year it was damn near impossible to even do legitimate research (granted I was usually just looking for online games when I was bored). If we were supposed to do online research and given class time to do so it was so hard I'd just do other homework and wait until I got home...Stupid dog...

    In hindsight I could have used a proxy...but our school computers/internet were/was slow enough that it was worth waiting to get home.
  • SofaKingJon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I used digg for my current event stories which i had to make into short clips for my T.V. Production class that would later be broad casted school-wide. Digg always has interesting stories, whether it be pictures of cats, to anti-bush propaganda. But once in a while you find those gems that pertain to a wide audience. Thats when you strike gold.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11It is EXTREMELY sad that you use Digg for current event stories. I can only imagine what you presentation was. Everything probably began with BREAKING!
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Sorry to break it to you broomet, but there are thousands of bloggers who would disagree with you. Digg is very useful for obscure current event and virtual age revelations.
  • Pepper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Our school uses this (crappy) system. I usually SSH tunnel back to home and then out however I'm thinking a personal VPN would be better ;)
  • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I'm glad digg is being blocked at schools. That just means less annoying kids making annoying statements and fad jokes.

    If I hear "Will it blend" one more time...
    • blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1That comment was much better before you added the blending...
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Fad jokes ruin everything.
  • rbflurry01, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1the only part blocked at our school is gaming because it says game in the URL... dumb school filters
  • Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2My school has their own blocking program, mostly it is to block myspace and related (xanga, livejournal, etc.) but blocks some other stuff too. It blocks most proxy sites. I found a few that work still, but most are blocked. Thankfully, digg isn't blocked yet, but most of the people at my school don't know about digg anyway.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Most people all aroun the country/world don't know about Digg yet. As in well over 99%.
  • rektide, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1dont kid yourself you are a menace to the attention economy
  • nullx42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Thank ***** college campuses dont block it. They think we're responsible! :)
    *Uses schools high bandwidth to upload movies to Usenet at 8mb/s*
    w00t!
  • Quag, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Digg was recently blocked at my school. We are a pretty small place so a chat with the IT tech got it right straightened up.
  • Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Since most stories on Digg are pure crap anyhow, so what? It's school, not your home.
  • Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Speaking of stupid schools, the proxy at mine was hacked. Everything was blocked for two hours. HAHA.
  • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I sent an e-mail asking them to continue blocking it.

    I don't want my tax dollars going toward delusional people reaing Digg.

    The thought of me paying for idiots like the submitter telling me what to do frightens me.
    • Beakerz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Dugg down for being a dumb ass.

      Where the hell do u get that Digg is a bad thing? Sorry i mean where do u get that delusional people read Digg? you seem pretty involved yourself. All they care about in school anymore is test grades - not what you actually learn so if they are allowed on Digg then they will be able to learn a lot more than what they get out of their school classes - I just graduated last year so i know what I'm talking about. I mean come on i graduated with a 3.8 GPA from high school and i don't remember a thing except how to read, right and do math (oh ya and what the constitution is). There are very few teachers that actually try to teach you anything anymore because all they care about is the tests, not your comprehension or your creativity. OH, and i doubt you pay much in taxes anyway because there is no way that you are making any kind of money being as ***** dumb as you are (evidently).

      So, like i said dugg down for being a dumb-ass.
    • TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4If you think digg gives you more of an education than school I think you should have paid better attention in school. I graduated 2 years ago I know what I am talking about.

      Oh and I dugg you down for being a dumbass.
    • broomett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Beakerz..where do I get the idea that delusional people user Digg?

      Ummmm...have you READ the comments lately? You don't even have to leave this page to see how delusional most users are.

      Digg users think they are experts on everything, when in fact, 99.999% are experts on nothing. It is always great to see a 16 year old kid calling a professional an idiot for doing something becuase htey FEEL that the action was dumb, despite them having no data to back it up, while hte professional is using his expert knowledge, and tons of data to make their decision.

      Pretty much the definition of delusional.
    • musicmantrs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite part about his comment (that shows he isn't beyond first grade) is:
      "i don't remember a thing except how to read, right and do math"
      I guess he thinks he turned write today going to school.
  • SuperHyperKid, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1All our schools in out tri-county area share the same gay hardware filter, and it blocks every decent site, digg included. If i wasnt like the only person at school that used digg, i would complain. The admins dont listen to me anyways, I got kicked off for circumventing the filter on my account, so i dont have PC access right now anyways, but oh yeah TorPark is THE solution for school it always works no matter what connection you have,,,
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