Light speed system fitters at our school, I could use the program for to get by them, but now I can't open the application, I'm on a mac and I was wondering if anyone here on TL could help me out.
EDIT: this should make more sense;
Our school gives us computers, macbook airs, (i go to a rich school) they have filters provided by light speed systems, and i had an applications called for that would get past the filters through the use of proxies and relays, I was wondering how to use proxies and relays without tor, sorry for the confusing wording.

Sovano

United States1503 Posts

September 17 2012 15:22 GMT

No offense but it's a bit difficult for me to understand what you're trying to convey here. Although based on my interpretation you have a web filtering system at your school that is not allowing you to access websites, but you had an application called light speed system filters that allowed you to bypass these filters? You're going to need to explain a bit further in detail as to the issue of not being able to open the application. Although I reckon if you just switched to a Mac from a PC its probably a simple issue of OS compatibility.

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United States26 Posts

September 17 2012 15:32 GMT

Our school gives us computers, macbook airs, (i go to a rich school) they have filters provided by light speed systems, and i had an applications called for that would get past the filters through the use of proxies and relays, I was wondering how to use proxies and relays without tor, sorry for the confusing wording.

CyDe

United States1010 Posts

September 17 2012 16:55 GMT

Are you in Pennsylvania by any chance? Like... Lower Merion High School?

Anyway, it's really hard to get past LightSpeed Systems.

Although now that I think about it, there were a few proxies that worked. If this thread is still open, maybe later I can find them and link them to you.

air-proxy.com worked last year for me. A little slow, but you know. It worked.

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United States26 Posts

September 17 2012 18:57 GMT

It doesn't thanks though :/
well for anyone who can download and open any applications on their computer with out admin approval TOR works, just google it.

NoOdelZ

United States14 Posts

September 17 2012 20:25 GMT

Guessing they placed a password on the bios as well?
You might be able to put an alternative OS on USB or Live DVD, like Backtrack on thumbdrive or something.
Then you could run/use whatever you wanted.

Even if they password protected the bios, there are usually ways to boot from usb or disc.

But to be honest, I wouldn't know with a mac.

Felorati

Denmark3 Posts

September 17 2012 20:36 GMT

I guess you want to visit blocked websites? Try hidemyass.com, its an easy to use web proxy

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United States26 Posts

September 17 2012 22:42 GMT

On September 18 2012 05:25 NoOdelZ wrote:
Guessing they placed a password on the bios as well?
You might be able to put an alternative OS on USB or Live DVD, like Backtrack on thumbdrive or something.
Then you could run/use whatever you wanted.

Even if they password protected the bios, there are usually ways to boot from usb or disc.

But to be honest, I wouldn't know with a mac.

Yeah you can't boot off of other drives, or go into the bios they're both password protected, there is a way to get into the bios through changing the amount of RAM, but I can't do that with this generation of a MacBookAir because the RAM is soldered into the mobo. Pretty stupid, they even blocked wikipedia...

On September 18 2012 05:36 Felorati wrote:
I guess you want to visit blocked websites? Try hidemyass.com, its an easy to use web proxy

Doesn't work, tried that last year too. :<

SoulWager

United States464 Posts

September 18 2012 01:24 GMT

can you boot into single user mode?

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United States26 Posts

September 18 2012 02:52 GMT

#10

Not without changing the amount of ram, and it's soldered in.

SoulWager

United States464 Posts

September 18 2012 04:15 GMT

#11

I don't think that model has target disk mode, so the only thing I can think of right now is not an easy fix:

Remove the hard drive(not generally an easy thing to do with a laptop),
Connect hard drive to another system(may be problematic if apple used nonstandard connectors)
Use other system to delete /Volumes/[laptophddname]/var/db/.AppleSetupDone.
Reinstall the hard drive in laptop.
Use the setup assistant to create a new admin account.

It would probably be easier to get the password out of someone that has access to it. Social engineering to the rescue.

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United States26 Posts

September 18 2012 13:06 GMT

#12

On September 18 2012 13:15 SoulWager wrote:
I don't think that model has target disk mode, so the only thing I can think of right now is not an easy fix:

Remove the hard drive(not generally an easy thing to do with a laptop),
Connect hard drive to another system(may be problematic if apple used nonstandard connectors)
Use other system to delete /Volumes/[laptophddname]/var/db/.AppleSetupDone.
Reinstall the hard drive in laptop.
Use the setup assistant to create a new admin account.

It would probably be easier to get the password out of someone that has access to it. Social engineering to the rescue.

Yeah, then I'd loose it though... I was hoping for something that didn't require any work with the hardware :/

nayc

Germany42 Posts

September 18 2012 13:31 GMT

#13

proxies, tunneling, vpn will only work if you can reach the corresponding server through the school router.

anyway i guess if you go to a private school, you probably own a smartphone, so you could just use it as wifi hotspot for your macbook, surf through your phones 3G connection