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Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2015 8:38 pm**

Just got this email from Corporate IT:

As you are aware we have seen many recent examples of hack attempts and success in the business world, including Target, Home Depot and Anthem. Some of these threats can involve accessing web sites that contain malware and/or illicit content. In many cases these may appear as legitimate sites.

As part of our greater defense in depth strategy web content filtering was implemented for the [Headquarters Office] network last year. Most recently this has been rolled out to all locations in the APAC and EMEA regions, as well as many locations in North/South America. This includes the blocking/filtering of traffic in the following categories: malware, adult themes, adware, hate/discrimination, pornography, tasteless and web spam. The toolset (OpenDNS) allows us to protect Windows, Mac, Unix, or mobile devices that connect to our network from malware, botnets, phishing over any port, drive-by-downloads, ads and emerging threats.

To further protect [Company Name] this filtering will be expanded to protect all remaining global locations. This filtering will be enabled for the Raleigh office on Thursday, 4/9. This involves a change to the DNS forwarders for your site and should be transparent to you.

Now, fine, it's The Man, they can do what they want. But the bait and switch is just insulting. We're gonna protect you from malware, so no "hate/discrimination" sites. Whatevs. I'll let you know if DTMAN.COM is blocked.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:17 pm**

Some of this filters ban conservatives sites, but leave liberal ones alone. I've never heard of the opposite being true.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:38 pm**

I would think DTMAN more falls under tasteless.

But damn Thib, when did you start working for Nazis?

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:32 am**

Well, SOMEBODY has to make the trains run on time.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:34 am**

So far my work has been pretty good about that stuff, but I feel it's inevitable.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:07 pm**

We got new SonicWall firewalls with built in filtering. I turned it off, but not before testing out the default stuff. It was pretty tolerant.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:17 pm**

In my last days at Cabela's, the new manager called the entire IT department into a meeting and started chewing our asses because even though there were only 40 of us and there were another 200 financial people in the building, we were using 75% of all the internet.

I pointed out that 95% of the financial people did not have internet access at all (my wife worked there) so our only using 75% of the total seemed kind of low.

That place was full of fucking idiots.

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Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 1:13 pm**

I remember Cleo getting a new firewall and the upper management getting all bent out of shape about what they couldn't access. I told my boss I had no trouble opening up what they wanted opened up, but I wasn't willing to have one access list for them and another for everyone else. Either it's okay to hit these sites, or it's not.

That was the one time that particular boss had any testicular fortitude and agreed with me.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 1:18 pm**

Must not have been Randy. In the 4 days I knew him he didn't seem to lack for intestinal fortitude.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 1:24 pm**

Heh... Definitely not Randy. His biggest problem was reigning it in.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 1:28 pm**

Vince wrote:Heh... Definitely not Randy. His biggest problem was reigning it in.

His intestines or balls?

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 1:31 pm**

Vince wrote:Heh... Definitely not Randy. His biggest problem was reigning it in.

I figured as much.

For those who don't know, that guy hired me personally to work on projects for him, and I relocated about 3 states away to Memphis, and I started on a Monday, and he got walked to the door on the following Thursday, and then no one really knew what to do with me since I wasn't hired for my expertise on their existing system.

But I liked Randy. He straight-up threatened my life during the interview and it cracked me up. That's why I took the job.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:37 pm**

One of the nice points of working at a college. They don't differentiate between internet traffic of students, faculty and staff. And they certainly aren't going to start blocking students and faculty.

Although they do block proxy sites. But that's the only ones so far that I've noticed.

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