Re:In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree
by lostlogin on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:20PM
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Is this common? What other sorts of things are blocked? At a former workplace I didn't abuse Internet browsing rights until sites I used during breaks started getting blocked. From then on break times were spent either bypassing or working out how to bypass the blocking. Even work related sites were blocked. Cat and mouse with the IT department was good fun.
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It's pretty rare, I see it pop up once a week or less.
A handful of sites are blocked, after a while of being available iphonedevsdk.com was blocked, for instance. That makes perfect sense given they were the vector for lots of high profile attacks.
Noisebridge.net was blocked, but while organizing an event I requested it be made available and it has been since.
I suspect there is a lot of overlap with Google's unsafe sites list, but this was listed as "Education;Spam/Illegal".