So apparently Websense, the filtering service that $employer uses, has determined that any and all URL’s that begin with http://community.livejournal.com are sex-related and must be blocked.
Yeah.
Hopefully that will be fixed quickly.
So apparently Websense, the filtering service that $employer uses, has determined that any and all URL’s that begin with http://community.livejournal.com are sex-related and must be blocked.
Yeah.
Hopefully that will be fixed quickly.
Better than mine.. a month or so ago they just killed all of LJ period.
Thing is, there’s prolly a REASON they think that. :/ Someone within the organiation prolly went to a naughty community on company time. An admin checks the proxy logs, sees something interesting checks it out, and then nukes the whole thing. :/
Well quit looking at porn at work and these things will stop happening!
Crazy furries and their porn…
Wow! So this begs the question, just what were you looking up?!
Sadly, nothing more exciting than http://community.livejournal.com/midwest_furfest
However, it seems that they realized their error, since it no longer blocks access.
Yeah, we don’t have that at work, but then, most of the time, I read LJ at work on my BlackBerry Curve…which they can’t stop.
Ah the joys of cellular phone data service and wireless notebooks, there both outside the paws of nosy administrative personel (till they are banned)
Yeah we use the evil “Websense” program at work and it blocks all access to LJ. That is if you use the pre-intalled Internet Explorer.. After I installed Firefox at work, it let me through.
Websense sometimes blocks pages I Need for work though…like The Elsmar Quality Forum, and I can completely forget about making any visits to the OMRON homepage.
If I am in ever dire need to visit a web page thats blocked i can pull it up on the iPhone, or take the personal laptop closer to the window where I can pull up some unprotected WiFi spots.
It’s probably categorization error on Websense’s part. If you could justify it in business terms, your company’s Websense admin could put in a category override for it. If I remember correctly, it used to fall into “Message Boards and Clubs.” And with Websense, they should be able to filter on full URI, so that some of the communities are sex-related shouldn’t block the whole site.
That said, I’m annoyed that Websense has done away with the “Suggest a Change” function on their customer web site; they now prefer it to be sent in e-mail to suggest@websense.com. 😛 (Whee, contributing to spam!)