On 21/09/2007, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 21/09/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Installing Tor on a school computer, if it's even possible, would almost certainly be in violation of the school's rules and policies regarding computer use.
- We don't know if this person is at a children's or teenager's school or an adult's school. Colleges and universities are often known to have filters too.
- Frequently, censors don't bother to legislate against reading things, they just use technical measures to stop you.
- We don't know whether the person is using the school's computer or his or her own computer, but connected to the schools internet.
- There are LiveCDs.
- If the school computers run on *nix, individual users can generally build programs from source.
Most likely, if the school *really* doesn't want students installing software, the permissions will be set up to prevent it.
Your 3rd point is the only one that's really relevant, and even then it wouldn't be surprising if the "computer use policy" or whatever they call it bans anonymisers.