More WebSENSE....
Sep. 17th, 2005 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiriseOkay. Putting together a website, or at least a pair of pages (essay + links) on censorware. So it's very much on my mind right now.
My boss is actually being pretty cool about the whole thing; he's trying to get Information Security to get us completely off of WebSENSE. I told him about the override button that mom had, as an alternative if they can't just exempt us from the idiotic blocking. I showed him the google cache trick I use to get around the blocking, and he thought I was brilliant, and didn't have a problem with it.
However, my hope is pretty slim even if they do let us off.
On Friday, I got so frustrated in having to use the google cache trick to visit websites that I needed to visit for work, that I went to my boss. He talked to helpdesk and IT, I talked to helpdesk and IT, they talked to Information Security, and the category that we needed to be permitted to go to was supposedly unblocked. While I was talking to IT, they mentioned the difficulty of getting certain computers cleared for it because apparently they clear blocks according to internal IP, and internal IP is dynamic. Which might explain how they *supposedly* unblocked said category for my unit, and then I couldn't access sites in it half an hour later.
My boss is actually being pretty cool about the whole thing; he's trying to get Information Security to get us completely off of WebSENSE. I told him about the override button that mom had, as an alternative if they can't just exempt us from the idiotic blocking. I showed him the google cache trick I use to get around the blocking, and he thought I was brilliant, and didn't have a problem with it.
However, my hope is pretty slim even if they do let us off.
On Friday, I got so frustrated in having to use the google cache trick to visit websites that I needed to visit for work, that I went to my boss. He talked to helpdesk and IT, I talked to helpdesk and IT, they talked to Information Security, and the category that we needed to be permitted to go to was supposedly unblocked. While I was talking to IT, they mentioned the difficulty of getting certain computers cleared for it because apparently they clear blocks according to internal IP, and internal IP is dynamic. Which might explain how they *supposedly* unblocked said category for my unit, and then I couldn't access sites in it half an hour later.
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Date: 2005-09-19 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-20 02:32 am (UTC)I'm now pondering proposing static IPs in combination with the system's ability to unblock filtering.
I am also cheerfully linking all of WebSENSE's stumbles on the page I'm putting together. Never, ever piss off someone who searches the Internet for a living!