So my job...

[joesmoke]

Will it be as bad as i think it will be??? Are my podcast listening days over?

 

[jdjbuffalo]

I'm at work, posting on Anandtech with Websense monitoring.

They can limit and see where you go and what you look at. They can lock you down a lot or just sit back an monitor. Usually our bosses don't get involved unless someone is watching pr0n at work or something equally bad.

 

[jackson2009]

my work is cool full inernet access apart from facebook which i dnt mind

 

[scott916]

Depends on the categories they choose to limit, but internet radio is usually the first to go.

 

[dfnkt]

we have websense and i know they lock people down hardcore. Even the executives (and myself) who are in the "no monitor" group are filtered out of categories like "Activist Groups". Mostly everyone (not me thankfully) is blocked with what we call the GPS policy (gambling, pron, sports).

 

[joesmoke]

Originally posted by: dfnkt
we have websense and i know they lock people down hardcore. Even the executives (and myself) who are in the "no monitor" group are filtered out of categories like "Activist Groups". Mostly everyone (not me thankfully) is blocked with what we call the GPS policy (gambling, pron, sports).

fuck... never thought of that. this is gonna kill my FFB team...

 

[oiprocs]

I worked at Websense. Let me tell you, it's NOT Websense shutting down your facebook and your sports, etc.

It's your Network Admin who you should yell at. I can't tell you how many people complained that Websense wasn't allowing them to have fun. Horseshit. All we did was give your admin the software...he/she sets the restrictions.

If you're going to bitch, do it correctly.

 

[funkymatt]

we use it here, i guess it depends on what sites you want to access. there's always ssh.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: scorpious
I worked at Websense. Let me tell you, it's NOT Websense shutting down your facebook and your sports, etc.

It's your Network Admin who you should yell at. I can't tell you how many people complained that Websense wasn't allowing them to have fun. Horseshit. All we did was give your admin the software...he/she sets the restrictions.

If you're going to bitch, do it correctly.

Put in a backdoor.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

California corporate locks us down with websense (to the point I can't go to CNN), so I just VPN to our Japan corporate and I can look at porn if I want.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: joesmoke

Originally posted by: dfnkt
we have websense and i know they lock people down hardcore. Even the executives (and myself) who are in the "no monitor" group are filtered out of categories like "Activist Groups". Mostly everyone (not me thankfully) is blocked with what we call the GPS policy (gambling, pron, sports).

fuck... never thought of that. this is gonna kill my FFB team...

Register cheap domain, get cheap hosting, proxy-load any website you want.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
California corporate locks us down with websense (to the point I can't go to CNN), so I just VPN to our Japan corporate and I can look at porn if I want.

Tentacle porn?

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
California corporate locks us down with websense (to the point I can't go to CNN), so I just VPN to our Japan corporate and I can look at porn if I want.

Tentacle porn?

I can view things so disgusting, so inhumane, so....Japanese, that you wouldn't even believe.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles

Originally posted by: joesmoke

Originally posted by: dfnkt
we have websense and i know they lock people down hardcore. Even the executives (and myself) who are in the "no monitor" group are filtered out of categories like "Activist Groups". Mostly everyone (not me thankfully) is blocked with what we call the GPS policy (gambling, pron, sports).

fuck... never thought of that. this is gonna kill my FFB team...

Register cheap domain, get cheap hosting, proxy-load any website you want.

how do you do that? (i already have my own domain)

 

[Alienwho]

This is the only thing that blows about my new job. My old job had no filtering. Now it seems every week something new gets filtered. When something is blocked I just VPN into my universities network and have at it.

 

[Vonkhan]

our websense admins are total nazis or total hippies every other week. sometimes we can't even access msnbc other times facebook is unblocked

wierdos

 

[MiniDoom]

rdp to your home computer and surf.

 

[Insomniator]

I have web sense running right now but only monitoring. You can allocate X amount of bandwidth to different types of data... so they may not block you but if they only allot say 15% of the network to media... it might be a lot slower.

We are only gonna go after people if they watch porn or in someway take up a lot of bandwidth for a long time. There is a radio website that also has ad's and videos playing constantly... a few people used to leave it on all freakin day...

 

[Brovane]

I manage WebSense where I work. Basically policy is set by HR. They have Sport, Social Network sites, gambling and porn locked down. Basically in IT we let HR tell us policy and we follow it. That way if someone complains we just point them to HR and they usually slink away. We don't block any streaming radio etc since we have a 1GB connection to the Internet.

Personally when I want to access facebook I just use log me in pc and go to my home computer and do it from there.

 

[FuryofFive]

we have websense here. for the 2 years ive worked at my job. for awhile things were locked down with quota time for sites deemed personal. IE "facebook or myspace" any streaming media or game related sites are blocked...we find ways around the game sites because some are tech sites with gaming section's

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: scott916
Depends on the categories they choose to limit, but internet radio is usually the first to go.

Yup, it was the first we decided to block. It's a huge bandwidth hoag....especially with our 18 locations.

 

[Ramma2]

LogMeIn

or

CygWin + PuTTY = ssh tunnel proxy, do whatever the heck you want

 

[Insomniator]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: scott916
Depends on the categories they choose to limit, but internet radio is usually the first to go.

Yup, it was the first we decided to block. It's a huge bandwidth hoag....especially with our 18 locations.

~10 megs an hour per user is a huge bandwidth hog?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Originally posted by: Insomniator

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage

Originally posted by: scott916
Depends on the categories they choose to limit, but internet radio is usually the first to go.

Yup, it was the first we decided to block. It's a huge bandwidth hoag....especially with our 18 locations.

~10 megs an hour per user is a huge bandwidth hog?

x500 im sure.

 

[Red Squirrel]

We have websense at the main office. You can't really do any IT related research on that network. We have an external LAN with no websense though.

I'm now stationed at a client we have a contract with and it's wide open. Issue is people constantly download and install crap, get viruses etc... I so can't wait to lock it down. Here it's bad though, people play games all the time, and I'm talking those flash ones with spyware and crap, like those poker sites and stuff.