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Content to be unblocked from Cyberoam

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Content to be unblocked from Cyberoam

1. Discord

• URLs: http://discordapp.com/ http://discord.gg/
• Blocked Under: Games
• Wikipedia: Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application designed for gaming communities.
• About: While Discord is designed keeping gaming communities in mind, it has become a strong communication tool for all sorts of communities in general, spanning technology as well. A ton of open-source communities are active on Discord (more info here: https://discordapp.com/open-source), and unblocking Discord will help students interact with these communities freely.

2. Medium

• URLs: https://medium.com/
• Blocked Under: Entertainment
• Wikipedia: The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium,[4] and is regularly regarded as a blog host.
• About: From the last few years, Medium has been on a steady rise and has taken a key position as the canonical medium for posting articles and making blog posts, especially on technology. Because of this, most key technology publications have shifted to using Medium and because it's blocked, it has become increasingly difficult for students to access information there.

3. Amazon Web Services

• URL: https://aws.amazon.com/
• Blocked Under: PersonalStorage
• Wikipedia: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis. The technology allows subscribers to have at their disposal a full-fledged virtual cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet.
• About: AWS provides a great set of features to developers for hosting and running applications on servers, but AWS is blocked, making the lives of students a tad more difficult.

4. Pwnable.kr

• URL: http://pwnable.kr/
• Blocked Under: Games
• About: 'pwnable.kr' is a non-commercial wargame site which provides various pwn challenges regarding system exploitation. This could provide a boon to security enthusiasts.