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[pkang0202]

I heard public school computer are monitored by the Education Office, and if they are suspicious about your internet usage, they bust you.

At my school I use anonymouse to get to dailymotion for videos to use in class. Do I have to worry?

One of my teachers at my school told me a teacher was playing Starcraft on his school computer and he got reprimanded by the education office because they saw from their logs that he was accessing battle.net.


Along those lines, I know when I startup Internet Explorer, it keeps prompting me to install some ActiveX program. Something called "InciterX" or something similar. I wonder if that is the program they use to track it.

On a tangent, no matter how many times I uninstall Ahnlabs V3 Internet Security, it magically reappears on my school PC.

[Hightop]

A few weeks ago my public school computer had its internet cut. The tech lady came and made a phone call, within a few minutes it was back on. I asked why it was cut off and the answer was "the computer was using too many waygook sites." So, someone, somewhere must be monitoring something.

[Manuel_the_Bandito]

Oh get real folks. As if they really care what we surf as long as it's not something blatently illegal. You don't figure they'd be a tad more concerned about what the pupils are viewing and downloading?

[calicoe]

Interesting. I have been wondering about this myself, and feeling paranoid, which is why I posted an earlier thread on the job forum about browing Dave's.

Over the last six weeks or so, my computer has been ridiculously slow, and cannot handle even normal page transitions/changes on the internet. It snaps down the internet or crashes only about 10-15 times a day. It is ridiculous, and I've asked for the tech guy to come and check it out numerous times to no avail.

I wonder if they have been monitoring. I mostly browse this website, and comment. Do you think they have software to backtrack your screenshots and read your comments/email? That would be a bummer.

Also, I do a lot of research on gender violence, rape, and racism in Korea. I google, read research reports, and websites. Is there a way to permanently erase your browsing history without too much tech investment?

[nomad-ish]

i've done a lot of surfing in the past couple years in korea and i've never had anyone mention anything about it. i think as long as you're not searching porn sites and you're doing a good job in your lessons, they probably won't say anything.

[Ukon]

The thing that slows down your computer is BPMcore.exe which is a file part of some program that blocks bad websites.....hard as hell to uninstall and automatically comes back....I finally just gave up.

[TheUrbanMyth]

Probably are monitoring. Many companies in Canada and America do the same thing...it's not that hard to set up and run.

However given the level of English there...I'm not that worried. Who's going to read through all the thousands of comments on here?

[calicoe]

Yeah, I had a dictatorial boss in the States that had a program installed that could capture all of your emails and communications sent. So, after people quit in a huff, she was able to read all the bad stuff about herself - surprise! Did she ever try to internalize, and figure out why she had a more than 50% turnover rate - nah, much easier to blame her staff.

[poeticjustice]

[calicoe]

Thanks PJ. Your fb story is hilarious. But, that's my big concern right now - bear with me - how can they read your Dave's and work rants without a special software?

[Rusty Shackleford]

My school blocks Messenger. Which isn't a big deal except I use it to talk to a few of my old buddies back home. Meebo worked for a while but they blocked that, too. Why would you do that?

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[TheUrbanMyth]