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It's a fairly common rule in an enterprise. Unless you can guarantee that imgur will never host porn, it's going to get blocked per an HR policy.
by technion 10y ago
It's a fairly common rule in an enterprise. Unless you can guarantee that imgur will never host porn, it's going to get blocked per an HR policy.
- Dylan16807 10y agoBut you can't guarantee that random blogs don't host porn either.
- tyingq 10y agoI believe it's mostly about legal liability vs actual effectiveness. If someone watching porn causes someone else to file a hostile workplace suit, you can show that you invested in whatever is the standard off the shelf tech to prevent it. It's all kind of silly today now that most people walk around work with 4g phones with high res screens. That leaves preventing malware on company PCs as the sole actual reasoning.
- Dylan16807 10y agoAnd why would the liability be different between random sites and imgur? I fully understand the idea of blocking both. I don't understand the idea of only blocking imgur.
- tyingq 10y agoIt's meeting the legal definition of "reasonable care" to buy an industry standard blocking tool and maintain it with software updates. The companies that use this software are checking boxes like "no porn", "no gambling". They aren't typically making URL level decisions. The stuff that sneaks by will happen because filtering isn't perfect. The makers of the software categorize popular sites with tags (porn, file sharing, proxy avoidance, hate speech, etc). Less popular sites get content keyword filtering...so something like porn images without porn words can slip by.
- jmts 10y agoThis is a reasonable description of the internet filters we have. There is a lot more than just file sharing sites blocked, and they usually specify the category they are blocked under. The others just don't affect me as much. Though my above comment about IP paranoia still stands. We have other policies around access to email, USB permissions, bans of VM software etc purely to raise the bar above 'easy' leaks.
- technion 10y agoThe genuine answer in many enterprises to something like that is "really? Time to block random blogs then".
- pjc50 10y agoHilariously, EE Mobile in the UK does the reverse of this. Quite a lot of random blogs are blocked, but imgur and reddit are not blocked. Although if you're foolish enough to access reddit over http not https, certain subreddits are blocked. Corporate systems don't care about a mythical "100% effective", they just want a porn blocking solution with acceptable false negatives. Which gets rid of imgur.
- philh 10y ago> Unless you can guarantee that imgur will never host porn Enterprise policies don't need to be that enthusiastic before they'll block imgur. Imgur does in fact host porn.