Down with WebSense

[Lost User]

HideMyAss? already blocked. Or an actual non-webbased proxy? (are you allowed to use those?) Do you want me to set something up? wallpass.net? blockfilter.com? proxy4free[^] mail me and I can try to set a new one up for you?

modified on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:15 AM

[Keith Barrow]

Yeh, me too (Websense). It's on my list of reasons to look for a new job....

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[Brady Kelly]

The main HideMyAss site is blocked, :doh:.

harold aptroot wrote:

Do you want me to set something up?

I'm cool thanks, I'll just set up a quick and dirty twitter page on my own site tonight, about time I played with the API.

[CPallini]

Ditto. (Un)fortunately my current job has many good features balancing. :)

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[Electron Shepherd]

Brady Kelly wrote:

I can't access my damn twitter account because I'm stuck behind a WebSense facist firewall thing.

Presumably this is at work? If so, I'm curious. What is so urgent in you personal life that it can't wait until you get home?

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

I hate websense. I understand why companies block email sites, facebook, etc, but a whole lot of other stuff is blocked. I google for a solution to some obscure programming problem, and click on a promising link, only to find that category "Blogs" is blocked. Infragistics is widely used in the company, but their forums are blocked, because they are... duh, "forums". I raised a ticket for unblocking the site, but they asked for three levels of approvals, plus security approvals from two people on different continents than mine. F-ck websense :mad:

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

[Single Step Debugger]

The three things I REALY hate in this universe are WebSense, Stupidity and Fanatics – in exactly this precedence. I know at least two people who have left our/otherwise almost perfect/ company because of this thing. Among the other shortages it lowers my productivity with at least 30% especially when I’m using a new technology; and because my job is the closest thing to “research and development” in our company it happens all the time.

The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

[Shog9 0]

Electron Shepherd wrote:

What is so urgent in you personal life that it can't wait until you get home?

He was gonna tweet about WebSense... :rolleyes:

[Brady Kelly]

This is on-site, the closest I get to 'at work' outside of my home office. I have already billed for the hours required to deploy this project, and every second of my time on this site is gratis, just goodwill to helkp the apathetic bastards that totally ignored my late November deployment in favour of a freaking marshmallow and pink frigging rubber hand-holding deployment two months later. I am not wasting company time on social networks, because the company and the time are me, and when I encounter superlativley shoddy and uninsterested cooperation w.r.t. AD etc., and get told to reverrt to my original fucking configuration for sign off, and I, in my sudden incomptence would like to 'chat' a freind more used to being mounted through the ears by just another corporate phalus, I get upset. What cant wait until I get home (to the hostil-like accomodation proivided by these gracious hosts) is asking somebody a proferssional question about somethign that can help me solve somebody else's unnaoiunced incomptence based general IT question. I will only be home on Friday, but be assured I will not be wasting any of this borrowed EDGE bandwidth, not any of my home bandwidth, to even contemplate any of my usual 'home scoped' work for a client that can't reciprocate 90% of my 'home' time, for limuted web access to channels I can use effectively.

[dreamaway820]

Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:

I google for a solution to some obscure programming problem, and click on a promising link, only to find that category "Blogs" is blocked.

I have had the same problem many, many times. I was once searching for an Oracle error, clicked on a link and got "The category "Sex" is blocked." :omg: I don't know who monitors that garbage (I suspect no one does) so I went to my boss and showed her exactly what I was doing and what I clicked on. I have also had the "Gambling" category pop up on what look to be like programming sites. Websense makes me feel so dirty even when I'm not doing anything wrong. :sigh: - edited to say "when I'm *not* doing anything wrong"...

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep But I have promises to keep and lines to code before I sleep, and lines to code before I sleep...

[Dan Neely]

In 4+ years I've only had 2 or 3 possible false positives for on topic web searching with websense. (Since I was always able to find alternates I'm not sure if they were false positives, or spamblog/etc type sites keyed in on a specific query.) I'm guessing WS has multiple paranoia levels because the sort of blocking some people're reporting is totally alien to my experience with it (munching funny links from CP.)

3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

Sex, Games, Gambling, Bad Taste - seen sites 'belonging' to all of these categories blocked when I was googling for programming problems.

Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

[Brady Kelly]

Dan Neely wrote:

In 4+ years I've only had 2 or 3 possible false positives for on topic web searching with websense.

I've had three in two days.