Monday, July 21, 2008

One truly “malicious web site”



At the company where I “work,” we use a service called Websense to block employees from looking at certain web sites on company time. Websense allows companies to set the desired levels of censorship, which usually depends on the corporate culture. At my company, in addition to the standard suspects such as pornographic and hateful sites, employees cannot access sites that offer other vices such as free email, streaming audio/video content, or social networking.


I first learned of this three months ago today when I started working and for the past three months, it's been interesting to learn that Websense classifies some of my regular internet destinations as "tasteless" and others as gambling sites. Yet I was still shocked the other day to learn that Websense classifies the Cavalier Daily web site as “malicious web site.” Not sure what the justification for that is, not that I disagree with the it considering how the paper used to run the nastiest quotes about me when I was in college.

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