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> It also was a time where companies were paranoid into letting employees access the internet, but at the same time had abysmal security In the early 2000s I w
by cratermoon 4y ago
> It also was a time where companies were paranoid into letting employees access the internet, but at the same time had abysmal security
In the early 2000s I was working at an insurance company. They used some kind of blocker in their outgoing firewall that prevented access to certain sites. At one point the blocklist included sourceforge, which threw my team's work a wrench because at the time a lot of the packages we depended on were hosted there. It took a few days to get that removed from the blocklist.
This same insurance company shut down for multiple days when a virus, I think it was ILOVEYOU, infested their email system so bad that nobody could work, and everyone (except the poor IT folks) got a long weekend. And then a while later, it happened again, but with a different virus, possibly Nimda. The company was very bad about updating its systems, and even in 2003 most users were stuck on Win95.
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoCompany I work for still blocks SourceForge because... something bad happened 15 years ago (?).
- cratermoon 4y agoEnterprises.
- WirelessGigabit 4y agoYou gotta be a little more specific.