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This URL is blocked by my company's network because of a certain substring in the URL lol
by indoordin0saur 2y ago
This URL is blocked by my company's network because of a certain substring in the URL lol
- crngefest 2y agoWhat why ? Would people browse bigcocks.net unless it’s explicitly blocked? What about cox? Is „tube“ on a blocklist as well?
- davidmurdoch 2y agoBecause a sales person at some "security" company convinced a CTO that it was as good idea.
- actionfromafar 2y agoThe security company just follows "best practices" :)
- indoordin0saur 2y agoIt is idiotic, yes. This feature is certainly outsourced to our mediocre IT contractor
- MattJ100 2y agoA classic case of the Scunthorpe problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem In this case the substring is part of the author's name. Such names are not at all uncommon.
- asciii 2y agoI just saw something similar with a user on here dangsux... Apparently might be Dang's UX and not against the Mod. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- hinkley 2y agoAlistair Cockburn is one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto. You may have heard of him more recently with the Hexagonal Architecture approach.
- drewsberry 2y agoThere are dozens of us!
- fullstop 2y agoI was on a mailing list once where messages were blocked because of msexchange being in the headers.
- Izkata 2y agoAny relation to ExpertsExchange?
- fullstop 2y agoAh, this was before ExpertsExchange existed. I think that it was Corel that had the mail filter, and it was related to Corel Linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Linux
- hinkley 2y agoYou mean ExpertSexChange? If you’re gonna capitalize it, do it right.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoFair, I would never do mine at Microsoft
- forinti 2y agoI once worked for a company that blocked Cuban sites because of .cu (which is the Portuguese word for the end of your digestive system), but did not block porn sites (or so I was told ;-).
- hinkley 2y agoThat seems like the sort of thing you check on your last day as you’re going out the door. “The rumors are true!” (Although less amusing, you could also just ask the IT guys and gals)
- CodesInChaos 2y agoAre you sure it wasn't because of the US embargo on Cuba? Companies outside the US often participate(d) as well, because they want to do business with the US and US companies.
- forinti 2y agoThe proxy replied with a message stating that the site was blocked because it was pornographic.
- LVB 2y agoI remember us once giving a supplier access to our internal bug tracker for a collaborative project. They were unable to get to the “…/openissue” endpoint.
- twic 2y agoMy company also blocks it, but as phishing.
- drewsberry 2y agoMine blocked it when I first created it, you can usually flag an incorrectly classified site and they'll correct it (I assure that you I'm not doing any phishing).
- drewsberry 2y agoWell if it isn't my arch-nemesis – my legally designated name. Maybe I should've gone for something with just my first name like drewsexpertblog.dev
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- rpmisms 2y agoHave you been saving that one for a rainy day?
- yencabulator 2y agoI'd recommend trying to host it at a more reputable domain. Like the commercial use subdomain of Cook Islands, .co.ck
- Brian_K_White 2y agoShut off like a petcock.