Why block Proxy Sites and block Anonymous Surfing Sites?
School blocking filters are used to protect students, to stop them wasting time, and to prevent harm to the school’s computer systems. There are some well documented dangers associated with proxy sites and these are also briefly outlined here . Today’s school children and college students are far better at staying one step ahead of access blocking systems than was true a few years ago. In recent months there has been a huge growth in the availablility of proxy sites – also called cloaking sites and tunneling sites- which feed them content from other web pages. Many schools currently block specific web sites by blocking their web site address (http://www….) or their IP address (12.154.165.23). Since these proxy sites pass on the banned web pages by displaying their content within the proxy site’s web pages, the detectors do not pick up on these addresses and the children can surf without restriction. The proxy sites often deliver the web pages in encrypted form and can get past conten
