Mojo Request Blocked!!!

It's blocked at work for me as well. The funny thing is, Facebook is not blocked. :facepalm: I've been just using my phone for years and never look at personal stuff on my computer anymore.
 
telecaster911 said:
It's blocked at work for me as well. The funny thing is, Facebook is not blocked. :facepalm: I've been just using my phone for years and never look at personal stuff on my computer anymore.
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The funny thing is that I do IT for a school system. A bunch of teachers have their laptop webcams blocked with tape because they're afraid we're watching and a lot of them say they don't do certain things because they're afraid we're watching. I bluntly say to them (with adjusted language depending on the person), "Do I really look like I give a fuck?" and laugh. I tell them that it's none of our concern what they do as long as it's not illegal or they're completely ignoring their jobs, but it's not something we monitor regularly. I'm like, "Go ahead, shop on Amazon. Go on Facebook. Look at my laptop. I'm on Mark Wein's Guitar Lessons Forum."

Now, the student logins ARE filtered differently. We block them from social media, which we don't for the faculty and staff. That's partially because it's distracting from their lessons and partially because they weren't previously and it sucked up so much bandwidth that the network was crawling.
 
It could be related the redirect hack we had a few months ago and some list of filters somewhere still has the site on the shit list.
 
telecaster911 said:
It's blocked at work for me as well. The funny thing is, Facebook is not blocked. :facepalm: I've been just using my phone for years and never look at personal stuff on my computer anymore.
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I've seen the argument in the past that FB is a requirement for parents to communicate with their kids and their kids' schools as a justification for permitting it where it would be otherwise blocked.

Course I've also seen situations where the person(s) in charge of the filtering whitelist whatever sites they want or friends want, irrespective of policy. When I started my last job, one of my first tasks was to clean up the web filtering as it had been run by the helpdesk guys and they managed to misconfigure aspects of the appliance. Went in & noticed all their personal favorite sites that should have been blocked according to policy were whitelisted, unblocking them for all users. Edit: Really though, there's all sorts of possible reasons for inconsistency in blocking from the provider itself to the people running the filter & directives from management.
 
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I've seen the argument in the past that FB is a requirement for parents to communicate with their kids and their kids' schools as a justification for permitting it where it would be otherwise blocked.

Course I've also seen situations where the person(s) in charge of the filtering whitelist whatever sites they want or friends want, irrespective of policy. When I started my last job, one of my first tasks was to clean up the web filtering as it had been run by the helpdesk guys and they managed to misconfigure aspects of the appliance. Went in & noticed all their personal favorite sites that should have been blocked according to policy were whitelisted, unblocking them for all users. Edit: Really though, there's all sorts of possible reasons for inconsistency in blocking from the provider itself to the people running the filter & directives from management.
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That's bullshit. Standard student filtering blocks Facebook. Student phones are blocked from connecting to WiFi and students aren't allowed to have phones in class.

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GilmourD said:
That's bullshit. Standard student filtering blocks Facebook. Student phones are blocked from connecting to WiFi and students aren't allowed to have phones in class.

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All I know is that was submitted to HR by several people as the 'why' they needed a site unblocked (which I would see as the HR liaison for the department at the time). Bear in mind that we're talking about users located in PA, NJ, GA, TX & OK who's kids are probably in dozens of different school districts & secondary ed.
 
@Modern Saint it happened to me too, via my Nasa account. I was a bit surprised, and alarmed, as this usually results in a "polite" phone call from Nasa IT. I immediately clicked off of it, but I recall seeing a giant red stop sign.
 
Lerxst said:
All I know is that was submitted to HR by several people as the 'why' they needed a site unblocked (which I would see as the HR liaison for the department at the time). Bear in mind that we're talking about users located in PA, NJ, GA, TX & OK who's kids are probably in dozens of different school districts & secondary ed.
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Oh, I know that's the reason you were given, but it's BS. I'm part of a three-man team that handles IT for a K-12 school district in NJ and we do our best to keep the kids off social media for multiple reasons. The parents shouldn't need to be up their kids' butts during the school day, either. The kids should be in class learning. Parents are enabling their kids because parents don't want to be parents anymore. They either procreate for a tax break or because they don't have friends and want little friends.
 
Lerxst said:
FWIW, if your work uses a fortigate filter, it looks like they reclassified it this past week so you might be able to get to it on Monday.

PST Apr 13, 2009 21:30:36 Rating added as Entertainment
PST Jan 12, 2017 13:55:embarrassed:6 Rating updated as Malicious Websites
PST Jan 13, 2017 12:55:embarrassed:2 Rating updated as Education

http://www.fortiguard.com/iprep?data=http://markweinguitarlessons.com/
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That was the only service that didn't immediately take this site off of ther list once we cleaned things up.
 
Happened to me at previous jobs with HC. Thankfully my current job involves the internet so no blocking of any website. We do have a 'professional use only' policy ( which involves no forums) so I only check this site during my breaks.
 
I used to be "that guy", the evil IT dick in charge of web content filtering in several big corporations, like Waste Management. Websense (now named Forcepoint) is my content filtering weapon of choice.

It depends on the company's legal policies and higher IT management's view on certain website classifications, and rarely the IT dick (me).

The primary reason behind most filtering is to protect the company from two costly threats, the obvious malicious sites and the payloads they have host, and potential lawsuits by employees when they walk up and see Billy Bob surfing porn, downloading torrents, or propagating klan propaganda.

Two lesser levels of concern are productivity and bandwidth usage.
I've seen HR and management less concerned with productivity than in the past. This also allows them some leverage to fire you if they want with a report on your web surfing sites and amount of time spent fucking off. Video streaming is an easy place to prevent bandwidth problems.
 
Having seen how HR can use web browsing history against employees, I do all my personal browsing on my phone (personal not work phone) using my own data so they have zero record.

For example, at one previous job HR didn't block the job-search category but would regularly receive reports on the category's activity to see who was looking for a new job and then often fire them for things like violating corporate email policy or Internet use policy. Any time they wanted to get rid of someone, the first thing they did was request Internet use reports on the person for the prior three months.
 
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