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I attempted to do your puzzle but the link was blocked by my employer's firewall: > URL: http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/ http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa
by ikeyany 8y ago
I attempted to do your puzzle but the link was blocked by my employer's firewall:
> URL: http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/ http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/rsa/
> Block reason: Violence/Hate/Racism
So... what exactly is loyalty.org all about?
- gtsteve 8y agoIt appears to be a personal website; I believe it is miscategorised.
- inciampati 8y agoI really doubt that shoen's page is any issue. Perhaps you can get to it in the way back machine.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoMy experience with these firewalls/blacklists is that they have quite a few random false positives. Requests for fixing them one-by-one seems to be a recurring theme on our company chat.
- michaelmrose 8y agoOn a personal device it's reasonable to use a VPN.
- acct1771 8y agoOn a personal device, it's reasonable to use LTE.
- michaelmrose 8y agoNot always feasible. Not everyone has a cash to spend on data and lives in an area with good wireless coverage.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoIt might be the case that some people employ VPN, or SOCKS proxies over ssh to their home computer, or similar schemes. I wouldn't know.
- ndnxhs 8y agoI would leave a company that used an internet blocker. They constantly get in the way of real work and benefit no one. The only valid use case I see is attempting to stop idiots downloading malware and installing it on company computers
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoIn more "traditional" companies that have software dev departments, they are extremely common in my experience, so switching companies wouldn't help much if you're in such a field. If 90% of the company employees only use IE and MS Word and are actually likely to install malware, and the last 10% are software engineers/data analysts/numerical simulation people, the latter are gonna have to work within/around these types of constraints.
- ndnxhs 8y agoPart of the reason I dont work at such places. Wouldn't want to be somewhere where I am treated like an idiot.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoI guess we all find different optima. To me it's not really being treated like an idiot, it's "we need to have a policy that takes into account that most of the people are idiots, you smart guys work around it if necessary". I don't know where you work, but off-hand I would postulate that working at "such places" also has advantages over where you work (e.g. better work-life balance, living in an area where property prices are not insane, etc.). As I said, we find different optima in these tradeoffs.
- casefields 8y ago"www.loyalty.org itself is the server for the web site of Californians for Academic Freedom, the group I founded to oppose the California loyalty oath, which is still a non-negotiable requirement for anyone who wants to work for the State of California -- including student employees of the University of California. " http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ That's the most controversial thing about the page. In my view it's not a big deal to have that stance but some people don't like others who rock the boat when it comes to the status quo.
- schoen 8y agoMy activism on this issue for the past decade and a half has basically consisted of corresponding for a few minutes each year with some new person who objects to signing the loyalty oath. I doubt that the site blocking has anything to do with this.
- wlll 8y agoI was curious about the contents and contentions points of the oath so went looking and one of the files you link to is a 404: http://www.loyalty.org/oath.txt http://www.loyalty.org/oath.txt
- cogburnd02 8y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20000831114425/http://www.loyalty.org:80/oath.txt http://web.archive.org/web/20000831114425/http://www.loyalty...
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoCatch-22 should be required reading cf. "The great loyalty oath crusade"
- schoen 8y agoI don't know why my web site was categorized that way by your employer's firewall.
- KwanEsq 8y agoMaybe a particularly simplistic auto-categoriser mistook the few eighty-eights (88s) on the root page[0] for their use as Nazi symbolism[1]? [0] http://www.loyalty.org/ http://www.loyalty.org/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=88_(number)&oldid=876466778#In_white_nationalism https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=88_(number)&oldid...
- kragen 8y agoFor context, Seth Schoen is not only very tolerant, one of the least racist USAns I know, but also Jewish.
- dunham 8y agoI'm guessing it's a false positive from using an IP similar to a sketchy site. It looks like the IP points to Linode. For what it's worth, I enjoyed the puzzle when I completed it three years ago. A practical exercise cracking the RSA keys followed by a small classic code breaking puzzle.
- croh 8y agomine too interesting. which firewall do your employer use ? here it is sonicwall.