Hospital WIFI Blocks Weapon Website

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So I drowe my wife to a hospital appointment today. While I was waiting, I wanted to check somethign on the rifling of my Ruger LCR.
I did a Google search on my IPhone that was connected to the "Partners Guest" WIFI system.
A few results came up. When I clicked on one, this warning message appeared that I was trying to access a BLOCKED site because it was related to "Weapons" !!!!
 
One of my daughters spent a couple of days in the Tuft's Floating Hospital a couple of years back. Had to log into my work site, etc., by proxy because it was weapons related and blocked by the hospital.
 
atilla said:
the horror, a private company setting restrictions on a service that they pay for and you were leeching off of for free!
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I am paying with my hospital fees using their official "guest" website. I would not call it leeching.
I survived, and I have unlimited 4GLTE, reception in the Hospital is not that good.
I am just amazed that somebody felt a need to censor that keyword, i.e. that it was considered "taboo" !
 
Robert1 said:
I am paying with my hospital fees using their official "guest" website. I would not call it leeching.
I survived, and I have unlimited 4GLTE, reception in the Hospital is not that good.
I am just amazed that somebody felt a need to censor that keyword, i.e. that it was considered "taboo" !
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it's free wifi, you didn't pay with any fee, you are using the service which they are providing for free. i could roll up and use it for free as well.

i don't see why people get their panties in a twist over this. i censor content in my home as well, if you bring some weird german doody-porn into my house, i'm gonna politely ask you to leave it in your car.
 
It sucks if you are the one stuck in a hospital for several weeks! No, I'm not getting or paying for a 3G plan. I shouldn't have to. The damn hospitals are as bad as zero tolerance schools! Weapons sites are not a threat in any way. The net effect on hospital staff is zero. It could even be said they could have a positive effect on patients. Hospital TV sucks.
 
Metrowest lets it through fine. As mentioned before, its usually prepackaged in the software as blocked unless someone goes in and manually changes it. Ask them to unblock it, it's the only way it will change.
 
A proxy program will defeat most of these content filters and also takes the responsibility off the provider. Everyone is so paranoid about law suits today.
And as others have said, it is their network, if you want to use it it is their rules
 
I'm not sure I completely understand how these proxy masking programs like Ultrasurf work. For example in a hospital setting, how do they bypass what the router is transmitting? Is web content censored at the router, or somewhere else before it gets there?

Or, do I have this all wrong, and it will only work on computers, like work machines, that have filters installed by the company that owns them?

I really don't know much about computers.
 
I subscribe to Dyn DDNS and also used them to register domains for personal use. At home I use a Zyxel VPN router which is configured to allow internet access to connected devices. When I'm away from home and using public wifi, I simply connect to the VPN domain from my smartphone, laptop, or tablet and enjoy secure browsing.

This came in very handy last summer when I spent almost two weeks with my mother in the hospital after she was involved in a motorcycle accident. Once connected to the hospital public wifi, I fired up the VPN and enjoyed secure, unfiltered remote access.
 
Billsail said:
I'm not sure I completely understand how these proxy masking programs like Ultrasurf work. For example in a hospital setting, how do they bypass what the router is transmitting? Is web content censored at the router, or somewhere else before it gets there?

Or, do I have this all wrong, and it will only work on computers, like work machines, that have filters installed by the company that owns them?

I really don't know much about computers.
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I'd answer your questions if I knew. Beats the Hell out of me how it works... but it does (or at least it has worked for me in the past).
 
Billsail said:
I'm not sure I completely understand how these proxy masking programs like Ultrasurf work. For example in a hospital setting, how do they bypass what the router is transmitting? Is web content censored at the router, or somewhere else before it gets there?

Or, do I have this all wrong, and it will only work on computers, like work machines, that have filters installed by the company that owns them?

I really don't know much about computers.
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As far as the hospital is concerned when using a proxy they only see that you are connected to the proxy server. The Proxy handles all your web requests and displays the pages to you through a tunnel. The hospital hardware cant see inside that tunnel.
 
...and just like the way gun laws don't protect you from determined criminals...

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I should know. I'm on their network right now. [rofl]

Surgery went well and I hope to go home tomorrow. Long recovery though.
 

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