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Student punished for making a proxy
A COMPUTER literate high school kid was dragged out of his philosophy exam finals and told he may not graduate because he built a proxy server at home.
Robert Fafnani made a new proxy for a small group of friends called Afnani's Moo Proxy. Apparently a few kids at his school, Langley High started using it. He was pretty nintendoed off but not half as miffed as when he got hauled out of his philosophy exam to get a right rollicking from the administrator.
True, we only have Fafnani's side of the story, but it seems that the administrator was one of those who feel they have the power of god over everyone, coupled with a complete ignorance of things legal or technical.
The administrator started by telling him that running a proxy server was illegal. After all what would happen if students were using it to secretly learn about making a bomb? Fafnani would go to jail.
Fafnani tried to argue his way out of it and pointed out that under the school Student Network Access Agreement there was no mention of setting up a proxy from home. Anyway it was not illegal to run your own website or a proxy server.
However since he is about to graduate he has decided not to make any waves. His school account was also shut down.
In his blog he moaned that he was the little man in this situation and the school thinks it has all the power. He is now forced to take all his proxies offline, otherwise he will face "repeat network abuse" and will get in a LOT of trouble.
He said he found it unfair that Fairfax County Public Schools felt it could impose "this kind of totalitarianism" on him and claims it has made him a criminal for making proxies.
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Robert's blog post about this:
http://robertafnani.com/2008/0...
Posted by: SoulRiser
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Posted in: News on February 3, 2008 @ 12:00 AM
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By "bog" do you mean blog?
lol. Yeah, bog = blog. That news site likes to play with words a lot.
Hey guys, let's see if we can email his dumbass principal to tick his school off.
wtf someone needs to close that school down
Bullsfuckingshit. He didn't do anything on school property so they have no right to suspend him or take any other action.
Since f*cking when do they have the right to drag him out of an exam?!!
WHY THE F*CK COULD THEY NOT WAIT?!
(sorry, piss'd off a little at that)
I hope he was given extra time to compensate for the Admin's stupidity.
(though tbh, he's an idiot for having his name as part of the ServerID)
ugh, why are people always so ignorant. i bet he just didnt want to have someone else have a minuscule amount of power. P.S. if teh spelling is bad, leave me alone; i typed this on my 3DS