amiga.org banned!

[stopthegop]

I just got back from Texas after a  month long "training" class for my new job.  The job is with a very large x86 hw manufacturer we've all heard of - for better or (more likely) worse.  The company is known for microscopic surveilance of workers - both on and off the job.  Rules about URLs are enforced by some nannyware program whose name I forget, but get this:  amiga.org is explicitly banned and attempts to access the url bring up a stern message straight from big brother himself;

"future attempts...to...access this url...resulting...in...termination...escorted....by security....from...the premises". etc, etc..  

For the record, I tried to go to amiga.org on my lunch hour.  It occured to me later why amiga.org is banned, and its not the reason you might think.  Remember, this company is HQ'd in Texas, which is next to Mexico.  "amiga.org" might be just as likely a url for a spanish-speaking pedophile as for an enthusiast of Amiga Computers. Thats my theory, anyway..  "atari.org", for example, worked fine.  Pretty absurd, huh?  

This is an example of one of the inherant weaknesses of filtering software, and also with speach recognition -- the inability to understand things like context, emotion, nuance and, in a way, common sense.  These are things that simply cannot be converted into numbers.  

[McVenco]

Can't make your own website which links to amiga.org without actually showing amiga.org as an url?

f.i. http://www.benderrodriguez.com/bitemyshinymetalass/ which then redirects (in an Iframe perhaps) to amiga.org?

Or is the whole domain blocked (like some servers can block anything that start with "ad." or "adserver.")?

[odin]

Tunnel to a.org via ssh?

[murple]

Do what I do when I get those warnings at work and just go to the site by IP. My work's security system bans any site with dynamic DNS which I dont think applies to amiga.org, but I think many of these tools block sites by name and will allow IP traffic through without problem.

Better yet, find a job at a company not run by asses.

[Fixer]

Is Amiga.org parked at any other (sub)domains that could be used?

Can't find any myself by just typing in obvious things.

[Piru]

http://www.amiga.org.nyud.net/
http://dijjer.org/get/http://www.amiga.org/ (requires some additional software)

Depending on the filtering used, these methods might not work.

[weirdami]

atari is japanese apparently. no problems with pedophiles there.

[hamtronix]

amiga just means woman it has nothing to do with age or crimes...

[AmigaMance]

 Yes, i always thought that japanese people are not pedophiles.

[golem]

When I hear people say that they can't get to a site at work because it has been blocked by websweeper like software, they always seem to think that IT maliciously stop them from looking at their pages. It peeves me that they think that's what IT people do all day - screen their emails and web pages.  :crazy:

[dammy]

Why not ask your sysadmin to white list Amiga.org since it's a tech/geek site based on a product from C=?  I can't imagine any sysadmin not knowing C= reference even if he/she hasn't heard of an Amiga (maybe too young

Dammy

[Homer]

Maybe it's because we value freedom of speech  :-o

[amigakid]

Maybe Amiga Inc poses a huge threat with thier new computers from ACk.... oh yeah we aren't getting those lol

[gazgod]

golem wrote:
It peeves me that they think that's what IT people do all day - screen their emails and web pages.  :crazy:

Your absolutly right - we save doing that till Friday afternoon  :lol:

[golem]

gazgod wrote:

golem wrote:
It peeves me that they think that's what IT people do all day - screen their emails and web pages.  :crazy:

Your absolutly right - we save doing that till Friday afternoon  :lol:

Ha ha! Too right  ;-)