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Internet filter RANT

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BigJohnKC

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Okay, after driving for an hour and 45 minutes in snow this morning I get to work to find out they have added a few more lists to the banned sites on the company proxy server. Since we are forced to go through this proxy for "security" reasons, I now cannot go to any humor, sports, or entertainment web sites. I tried to get my Daily Dilbert email, but when I went to www.dilbert.com I was denied access. No access to espn.com either. This sucks! Thank God they didn't ban Anandtech forums or I wouldn't have anything to do at work......
 


<< well.. you can always try a subscription to Anonymizer.com, unless they banned that site too 😉 >>



Quote:

Access Denied
The requested document, http://www.anonymizer.com/, will not be shown.

Reason: Found in Denied List (Alcohol-Tobacco, Crime, Drugs/Advocacy, Drugs/Non-medical, E/Games, E/Sports, Gambling, Humor, Interactive/Chat, Interactive/Mail, Intolerance, Job Search, Occult/New Age, Religion, Sex/Acts, Sex/Attire, Sex/Nudity, Sex/Personals, SexEd/Advanced, SexEd/Basic, SexEd/Sexuality, Vehicles, Violence, Weapons). Entry causing block is anonymizer.com.



wow. 🙁
 
My (old) high school had banned site lists, and we put up a CGI proxy feed in to fix it 😉 Every time they banned it, we would just rename the DNS entry.

Our school decided to add executable files to the filter eventualy, and so they baned *.exe, *.bat, *.zip, and...you guessed it...*.com

Whee!

Armani
 


<< My (old) high school had banned site lists, and we put up a CGI proxy feed in to fix it Every time they banned it, we would just rename the DNS entry. >>


I guess I must have been in high school before proxy servers were around then - I remember guys looking up pr0n on the library computers, which if I remember right were Macintosh IIc's, maybe I'm wrong. I think we had a few of the early Performa series boxes in there, but they were expensive so the school wouldn't buy many.

Well, I guess no fun for me, eh? 🙁
 


<< How about Babelfish?

I always translate my "banned" sites from Japanese to English, and it works out great! >>



Yeah, works, but no graphics show up......not worthwhile when trying to view a DIlbert comic strip.
 


<<

<< or I wouldn't have anything to do at work...... >>



How about actually working? >>




umm..yeah. See, there's this concept in communication that we like to call sarcasm.... 😉
 
there's no way my company will ban espn even thou it has no 'business value'

too many nascar fans in the upper management (*cringe in fear*)

they did ban ebay thou.... I guess i sold too many imaginary internet game items... 😀

 


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<< Job Search >>



That amused me. I guess they don't want you looking for new work on company time. 🙂 >>


Yeah, I liked that one too. I'm guessing this is the entire list. Not surprising anonymizer was on all the lists that are banned. Filter software companies are a bit vindictive like that. I remember back in college they used CyberPatrol. One time I found a news story about a small group of people who wrote a crack to the software and CyberPatrol quickly fixed it and put out a new banned site list. The crackers' website was on every possible banned list that the software offered. Seems a shane they can add any site they want.
 


<< there's no way my company will ban espn even thou it has no 'business value'

too many nascar fans in the upper management (*cringe in fear*)

they did ban ebay thou.... I guess i sold too many imaginary internet game items... 😀 >>



Wow, I just checked and eBay is not banned. Must have business value....
 
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