Schoolkid punished for making a proxy

A computer literate high school kid was dragged out of his philosophy exam finals and told he may not graduate because he built a proxy server at home.

The administrator started by telling him that running a proxy server was illegal. After all what would happen if students were using it to secretly learn about making a bomb? Fafnani would go to jail.

Fafnani tried to argue his way out of it and pointed out that under the school Student Network Access Agreement there was no mention of setting up a proxy from home. Anyway it was not illegal to run your own website or a proxy server.

He is now forced to take all his proxies offline, otherwise he will face "repeat network abuse" and will get in a LOT of trouble.

He said he found it unfair that Fairfax County Public Schools felt it could impose "this kind of totalitarianism" on him and claims it has made him a criminal for making proxies.