School and Hacking

It wierd how things work out. Yesterday at 7:45 am I attend Erie 1 Boces' Harkness program. Not sure why but the program I'm going for is Cisco Networking Academy (guess people telling me it is worth $200,000 in the workforce drew me in). Anyways I figured another boring day at school but to my amazement I was wrong. Instead the teacher was totally awesome and I spent most of my time trying to find ways around Harkness' Security Policy. And indeed we did (we meaning me and my friend Dave). Dave started out by find an open admin account that required no password but it's name wasn't Administrator. The we tried to get past the blocked websites by using a proxy but that didn't work.

Instead Dave insisted on moving along to finding a way to retrive and send email using his GaWab account. So he started off with Outlook express and got that working. In the mean time I figured that if this info got out and they realised what we were doing to get our mail they would block Outlook somehow. So I moved on to plan "b". Plan "B" consisted of find a way to view web-based email using IE (since Harkness will not allow you to use another browser since there security was built around IE. Do you see something wrong with that picture. I sure as hell do. It's f***ing Internet Explorer, the most useless Microsoft program ever (and it's filled with security holes of it's own). Anyways I found that stmp.gawab.com and pop3.gawab.com allowed perfect access to gawab account even though they blocked the main site gawab.com. Next in line was walla.com which to by amazement they didn't block to begin with. So now I still have to figure out yahoo, msn, gmail, aol, and the rest of the gang. As well as finding a way to get to website I want to without the filter realising it.

So if anyone has any other ideas let me know. And yes Dave tried using telnet to login to a shell account and work that way but that is making very slow progress to the point were we are better off not using it.