my biology teacher used to have me help her bypass the school’s web filter because any site that contained common bio textbook words would be blocked.
later i naively mentioned to a librarian i didn’t need her to lift the filter and she ran to the head of IT and it Became A Thing.
Like usual, I got sent to the vice principal, who would chew me out for forcing me to deal with me but ultimately realize we had a stalement and send me off with a stern warning.
(In this case, that I’d be happy to have my comp privs revoked or serve a detention, but I’d be forced to point out several faculty had been using my technique to display banned material to children.
After all, if the filter is perfect and right, we can’t have anyone bypassing it? For the children’s sake!
Edit: as an aside, at the meta level you should probably take a step back when a 16 year old can untracably step around your entire security mechanism and think “this person is not currently being malicious. maybe i should re-evaluate how much leverage I hold?”
