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The ultimate litmus test for such filtering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke And a favorite tech blog/news website that is often blocked: https://torrentfreak.com/
or literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
"There are three English football teams that always fall victim to overzealous censorship: Arsenal, Scunthorpe and Manchester Fucking United."
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I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
My wife's name is Aleksandra, but the short version of that is Ola. Similarly, Olek is a short for Aleksander. Also no idea why.
A number of my personal sites end up blocked by corporate firewalls. It’s slightly infuriating. Even my own company. I got in a literal fight with IT needing to justify the why in why I needed access to my own website. Like I can live without it, but it’s nothing but my blog where I rant about tech. The why should be why is it blocked to begin with. The default state should not be blocked .
The word "model" as in "Data Model" or "Mathematical Model" is blocked at my work. Why? Because otherwise people might look up clothing models or something... This impacts multiple programming divisions and has not been lifted even after it was raised.
Also: polish up your resume and start sending it out.
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And there's still devs that want the in-office life still..
We've been working home for 2 years. They want us to run all traffic through the VPN that applies the same filtering. Please excuse me if I forget to turn it on.
With how verbose and talkative applications today are it wouldn't be appropriate to route their traffic through the company line anyway.
Of course that decreases the security that deactivating split tunneling offers to a degree, but I think we have to live with that. All this security is ineffective anyway if 99% of attacks come through the inbox. That will never be change and people need to be educated and have to trust IT that they don't blame the user since it can happen to everyone and nobody is on guard to 100%. With decent backups the damage can usually be completely mitigated without a lot of expensive security measures.
Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff. One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience. Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocke…
Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked. I had a colleague whose surname, Sextro, was part of his email address. He occasionally had messages blocked by blanket filters like that.
Not if they intercept all DNS requests, which is not unheard of.
DoH or DoT would prevent that though, which is getting enabled in browsers now - probably why they are now employing other methods of filtering.
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or literally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
or.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_My_Dad_Says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$h*!_My_Dad_Says The later (TV-Show) is actually based on the former (twitter feed) but couldn't retain the name in the US. It would probably have been perfectly fine as is in the UK.
I never understand that kind of (often self) censorship where the meaning is intentionally left clear. It could be malicious compliance with keyword-based filters but people do it voluntarily even in places where no such filters exist.
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I believe they were referecing a bit more relevant to the discussion short version of "Richard", which is "Dick".
Interesting, TIL.
I make a point to mention that my cat’s full name is Robert. I enjoy the reactions: person either looks at me like I’m a moron for thinking this is something worth spending the energy to say out loud, or they really enjoy it. I digress.
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No offence to the other members of haxx, but I suspect Daniel's site is the only one that gets enough traffic to be considered for filtering.
Somehow that seems worse. Don't apply automatic filters to sketchy, fly-by-night spam sites that pop up and disappear, but do apply purely automatic filters to sites with a significant enough amount of legitimate traffic? That seems to be exactly backwards of the way things should be done if it wasn't mostly security theater.
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Interesting, TIL.
Bob is short for Robert, too by the way. I make a point to mention that my cat’s full name is Robert. I enjoy the reactions: person either looks at me like I’m a moron for thinking this is something worth spending the energy to say out loud, or they really enjoy it. I digress.