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Kind of an interesting story: I spent three years writing code for a bank and Lobsters is a tech site that I visit occasionally. The corporate firewall as wel
by rkho 8y ago
Kind of an interesting story:
I spent three years writing code for a bank and Lobsters is a tech site that I visit occasionally.
The corporate firewall as well as the Bluecoat proxy banned it (Bluecoat also banned basically everything while I wasn't on VPN).
When I inquired about this ban, an incredibly bureaucratic person responded that they had reports that ".rs domains perpetrated lots attacks" on the company's security systems so therefore they were unwilling to whitelist the site.
- atomi 8y agoThis reads like a grievance. I can't tell. Would you prefer a different TLD or do you think your work should be more flexible?
- djsumdog 8y agoI don't think the poster was grieving against Lobste.rs so much as the companies poor understanding of how domain names work.
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- rubyfan 8y agoWe have blue coat as well. It’s a tool for tyrants. Every blog is blocked on ours and the reasons listed is “anyone can publish and content.” Yeah welcome to the Internet.
- alanpost 8y agolobste.rs sysadmin here. Would you be willing to email me a screenshot or the error message you get accessing lobste.rs and having it blocked by Blue Coat?
- spydum 8y agoyes those crazy cyber serbs
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