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an employee tried hundreds of times to access pornographic sites and was denied access. When he used a flash drive, he successfully bypassed the filter to visit
by CWuestefeld 17y ago
an employee tried hundreds of times to access pornographic sites and was denied access. When he used a flash drive, he successfully bypassed the filter to visit a "significant number" of porn sites.
Huh? How does plugging in a flash drive bypass web filters?
- chaosmachine 17y agoPortable Firefox with Tor, or something like that. http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/ http://www.torproject.org/torbrowser/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Tor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Tor
- CWuestefeld 17y agoGood point, I buy that explanation. IMHO, anybody who's carrying around TOR and using it to bypass an employer's filters so he can get to porn has a real problem. Several years back, me and a coworker looked at the company's DNS servers, curious what names were cached. We were pretty horrified. I guess this kind of thing is pretty widespread, more than "outsiders" would expect -- particularly from a cubicle farm where there's no privacy.
- digitallogic 17y agoAt a job in college, a desk jockey ordered porn and used his work address on the purchase. He got caught when the sys admin came across the email w/his receipt in the spam queue. Though he wasn't fired (he did get chewed out) I couldn't look him in the eye after I saw the list of movies he purchased (they were largely she-male dvds).
- dinde 17y agoMaybe they meant a wifi stick; I know people who use these to connect to other wifi hotspots from work.