You shouldn't need to put filters on a school computer. In that aspect I shouldn't of needed to put filters on computers where I work, but we did. No matter what the age people will always try to find away not to do thier work.
Everyone is talking about rules. Rules this day in age really don't stop things from being done. Doesn't anyone think that the school is going overboard. So the kid figured out how to get around the poorly desinged security. Just give the kid detention do let him on the computer for awhile. Don't suspend him form his education for three months. If I was the IT Department I would take this chance to fix the mistake before something bad happens from this flaw. Through all of this you hear they are punishing the students. What about the IT Department, where is there slap on the hand for not implementing this right? What are they going to do to fix it? They need to take a look at thier rules and harden thier security.
What good is a law going to do? People don't follow laws anyway. If the school or any company/ industry is concerned about security they need to fix the problem. I damn well know from the IT side of things Websense has a setting to stop using proxy advoidence sites, unless you have authorization. It seems to me that the school is trying to point the finger at someone else instead of taking responsibility for the problem. If I was them I would look at getting an IT department that knows something and doesn't care about what they are going to do in Dungeons and Dragons that night. I would take this as a learning opportunity to fix the problem and make the system more functional.
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You shouldn't need to put filters on a school computer. In that aspect I shouldn't of needed to put filters on computers where I work, but we did. No matter what the age people will always try to find away not to do thier work.
Everyone is talking about rules. Rules this day in age really don't stop things from being done. Doesn't anyone think that the school is going overboard. So the kid figured out how to get around the poorly desinged security. Just give the kid detention do let him on the computer for awhile. Don't suspend him form his education for three months. If I was the IT Department I would take this chance to fix the mistake before something bad happens from this flaw. Through all of this you hear they are punishing the students. What about the IT Department, where is there slap on the hand for not implementing this right? What are they going to do to fix it? They need to take a look at thier rules and harden thier security.
What good is a law going to do? People don't follow laws anyway. If the school or any company/ industry is concerned about security they need to fix the problem. I damn well know from the IT side of things Websense has a setting to stop using proxy advoidence sites, unless you have authorization. It seems to me that the school is trying to point the finger at someone else instead of taking responsibility for the problem. If I was them I would look at getting an IT department that knows something and doesn't care about what they are going to do in Dungeons and Dragons that night. I would take this as a learning opportunity to fix the problem and make the system more functional.