Oooh, WebSENSE made a little booboo....

[estirise]

WebSENSE blocks John C. Dvorak's blog

I came across this while looking for good anti-WebSENSE articles. Apparently there was a porn site on the same general IP address as John C. Dvorak's blog. (Dvorak writes tech articles.) Needless to say, they were trying to block the porn site and got his blog as well. They fixed the error, but it was still an error.

I am now thinking of not only a anti-censorware page, but an anti-censorware podcast. I'll probably use my current install to do it, which means probably doing away with the Rosegarden/Inkwell updates that weren't updating.

ETA: The new versions of WordPress allow one to do podcasts (by allowing you to attach audio files) which makes it handy for potential podcasters. My Wordpress blog was being used for Inkwell/Rosegarden updates, but since I never remember to update it *looks embarrassed* I was thinking of using it for setting up podcasts.

Comments

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

What's that mean for those sites? *looks confused*

[estirose.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the sites I wasn't updating, it was the blog announcing the site updates that I couldn't remember to update. Rosegarden and Inkwell are not affected, I'm just thinking of zapping the "Rosgarden and Inkwell updates" blog. (It's syndicated as "selfanfic".)

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Ah that thing. Okies ;) (sorry, brain is mushy)

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

I've always been skeptical of censorware since my freshman year of college when they had NetNanny installed on the 24-hour lab computers.

Needless to say, after Net Nanny shut the computer down when a student wrote the word "gender" in a paper she was writing, locked down the computer when I misspelled "six" as "sex" even though I corrected it... they took it off the computers in a month because students were ticked off.

Around here, you can always tell if they're messing with the Internet content filters. One day, java.sun.com was blocked - I was on the phone with the ESEF help desk for half an hour before they got me transferred to the guys in charge of the filters here and they got an EARFUL. (I need to refer to the APIs on java.sun.com, it's directly related to my job.) The filters were fixed fairly quickly - turned out half my division was calling and yelling.

So, yeah, I think there'd be an audience for an anti-censorware page. (Just to see how many of these products block it...)