Ponox

I believe the term is circlejerk.

proprietary redhat

That's like, two levels of proprietary.

similar incident in high school with getting around net filters.

Good god I hope my school doesn't actually enforce that. The amount of lurking I do on blocked sites is nothing short of astounding.

I even have a customized version of Firefox nightly (which is for the most part invisible to the RAT installed on the computers) in my network share, along with PuTTY to tunnel to my VPS.

Selling shell accounts/OVPN certs to tech savvy kids is really a great business model.