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Offline golem

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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #14 from previous page: September 03, 2007, 10:46:57 PM »
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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:


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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2007, 11:14:11 PM »
When I want to surf porno or harass people on the net at work, I just vpn into home and use remote desktop.
 

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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2007, 03:48:44 AM »
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by koaftder on 2007/9/3 18:14:11
When I want to surf porno or harass people on the net at work, I just vpn into home and use remote desktop.


Where I work at the IT people are using up all of the bandwidth doing this.
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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2007, 04:23:42 AM »
The site has been banned a few times at my work too.  But it's free now.  I guess they sometimes check them out to see what they are and if they are not work related they block them.  Common practice
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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2007, 04:26:57 AM »
I'm an admin for medium-large operation so I can tell you a bit about the way our "net nanny" works. The vendor for our nanny software updates a database file periodically. This datafile contains sites and terms to block or allow. By default most sites with words that have been related  to banned material are blocked. I have now idea, but say there's a site out there called hotamigababes.org with naughty stuff posted. By default our vendor's database is going to block most if not all domains with the words hot, amiga and babes. The vendor does some manual surfing and removes legit sites from their block list when they find them, other times they don't. When a legit site is blocked because of a flag word but shouldn't be, we contact them and ask them to update their database with the legit site to allow. In 1 to 2 weeks we get and up dated datafile that stops flagging the good site.

The message you're getting is generated automatically. At our place you get a similar warning. If your IP and the blocked site start hitting a threshold count, you show up on a list that some one is going to be checking. At our place if the threshold is hit, some one will do some investigating. A user trying to hit a legit site blocked by mistake isn't going to get in much if any trouble once the facts are known. However, I have heard stories of places where it doesn't work that way. You hit a site repeatedly that you were told not to, HR was flagged and you pink slip is being spat out on the nearest laser printer.

You say you're at a new job, so you probably can't call up an admin buddy and have them update the site filter. At our place users can request a site be unblocked. We check it out, and if it's clear we send an update to our vendor. Until you know the policy at your place it's probably best you wait until you get home to hit that evil amiga.org :-)

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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2007, 04:28:48 AM »
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It peeves me that they think that's what IT people do all day - screen their emails and web pages.  


I feel your pain... and who has time for such nonsense anyway. I can barely keep up with my own inbox.

BTW, we had a candidate interview for an open admin position from another department once. When ask what he thought the typical daily tasks of an IT admin was he answered .... "probably mostly thinking up new rules for the users" :lol:  Yeah, thanks for coming......

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Re: amiga.org banned!
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2007, 03:18:07 AM »
Yeah, if you're allowed to run putty (or better yet, can run linux at work), and have a linux box at home you can proxy through your home box.

linux command line:
ssh -ND 8080 user@your.host.com

Then setup browser to use localhost:8080 for a proxy.

It should be noted that DNS may not go through the proxy, I know you have to change a config option on firefox for that.

Test it before trying it at work, browsing isn't worth losing a nice job over... if it's a nice job that is.

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