Every time you plug a hole, an ingenious way is found around it. Most non technical types believe the salesman. Hadn't you noticed?
John Sessoms wrote: > Well, it would seem then, employers are easily satisfied with pro-forma > compliance. I've yet to see one of these filters that can prevent > someone from getting to pornography if they really want to. > > OTOH, I have seen them block innocuous sites simply because the site > included the wrong word. And I have seen them block work related sites, > resulting in the Network Administrator having to do extra work to bypass > the filter for those necessary, work-related sites. > > >> From: >> "P. J. Alling" >> >> No it satisfies, employers who don't want their employees looking at >> porn when they're supposed to be working. That's what those filters >> are meant for, (plus a scary message that your attempt to access a >> forbidden site has been logged). Personally I see no problem using it >> this way, you get paid at work to do things you wouldn't do otherwise, >> that's why it's called work. >> >> John Sessoms wrote: >> >>> From: >>> J >>> >>> Listen to this..Where my wife works, she was going to the page were >>> my photos are on photo.net www.photo.net/photos/pjjdxn and she >>> received a ERROR which said: The following error was encountered, >>> Access denied by Smartfilter: Forbidden, this page >>> www.photo.net/photos/pjjdxn is categorized as: Nudity >>> >>> AS you have seen before on the page there is no nudity at all on the >>> page, but yes their are nude photos are other people's pages, so I >>> guess they just decide to block it all............Joe >>> >> FWIW, the American Cancer Society is categorized the same way by >> "smartfilter", because they have "breasts". >> >> Not very smart at all, but it satisfies the religio-fascists who want >> to keep you barefoot and pregnant. >> > > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
