RTE blocked by WebSense

rlogue

I tried to check out the RTÉ website this lunchtime, only to discover that my work's Websense filtering had blocked the entire site. Why? Apparently rte.ie is a hotbed of 'Proxy Avoidance'.

Foggy43

I take it you are still in the UK. If so I am not surprised! Where I work most of us have access to 2 websites only. The company and the BBC News. We need authorization from our IM department to access other websites.

lostexpectation

rlogue wrote:

I tried to check out the RTÉ website this lunchtime, only to discover that my work's Websense filtering had blocked the entire site. Why? Apparently rte.ie is a hotbed of 'Proxy Avoidance'.

maybe they once mentioned on some program the existence of such methods, email websense and your admin

L1011

Oh well, another one to add to the excludes list :rolleyes:

Foggy43

I presume what rlogue is refering too, employers restricting employee's access to the internet

L1011

WebSense is a system companies often use where a company (WebSense) categorise websites and you choose which categories to block. It often gets sites VERY wrong and can take an age to get them to fix those mistakes. In this case its decided that rte.ie is a system that lets you get around WebSense (such as anonymizer, and so on), and this is a category that pretty much universally blocked.

Foggy43

Thankyou MYOB

Completely different to what I was thinking. Where I work I would need to get a logon and password to sign in to have full web access. Our IM security will monitor what you view. How they do it I do not know but some people have been caught viewing nasty websites and subsequently fired. You have to be so careful that no one knows your sign on details!

lostexpectation

does this apply to all of websense, ya think if it filed under proxy avoidance it is, anybody else not get in, websense is such a cretinous company.

aphex™

lostexpectation wrote:

does this apply to all of websense, ya think if it filed under proxy avoidance it is, anybody else not get in, websense is such a cretinous company.

No works in my place.

Tbh I dunno what i'd do without an internet connection. Haven't used a phone book in years, just type stuff into the internet and you get an answer in a flash. I think i'd have to quit if they took the internet away.

ondafly

i manage websense in my job, and its not blocked by default. Someone has obviously added it in manually.

rte isn't a bed of proxies, but google translate is !