Your company has an internet policy, I presume, and accessing "non-authorised" sites is up there amongst the list of things for which you could be disciplined or fired.
If you really have a business need to access a particular site, then I'm sure that if you make a case for it, the site will be added to the authorised sites.
Anyway, there is an excellent discussion of proxy avoidance (or should that be evasion ;-) here: http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html
If you really have a business need to access a particular site, then I'm sure that if you make a case for it, the site will be added to the authorised sites.
Where a company has a clear acceptable use policy applicable to internet resources that blocks access to certain sites then the individual might want to access such sites on their own time and from their own systems or a cyber café.
I presume, therefore, that my IT crowd are somehow creating a rule that says 'block any sites under Category x'.
the classifications of sites can happen in a number of ways;
I think it is important to note that companies implement acceptable usage policies to protect themselves and their employees from potential issues when inappropriate sites or usage of the internet and email occurs.
A good policy will also have in place the consequences of breaching the acceptable usage policy and also the consequences in attempting to bypass any controls in place to enforce the policy. This can and in the past has led to staff being dismissed.
If you need to access the sites for genuine work reasons then simply request for them to be allowed, otherwise follow clubman's advise and if the sites you wish to access are in breach of the policy then perhaps your workplace is not he appropriate place to acess them.
. I don't feel "protected" in any way by this kind of filtering, do you?
this kind of molly-coddling should be completely unnecessary in a modern, mature, workplace. A sign of the times perhaps
Actually yes. [HR speak deleted]
From a company's point of view it protects the company from
(a) Sexual harassment cases
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(g) Having computer equipment seized in a Garda investigations into activites in breach of the Child Pornography and Trafficking Act.
People who don't like it can always find another job with more permissive internet usage policies.I think it is perhaps more important to note that this kind of molly-coddling should be completely unnecessary in a modern, mature, workplace.
ClubMan said:People who don't like it can always find another job with more permissive internet usage policies.
I didn't realise you worked in our IT department too ClubMan!
It's an employer's prerogative to institute the sorts of systems and policies that they feel are needed for and best suited to their businesses. Nobody forces people to work for such employers. They do so of their own free will.Alternatively, people could choose to reject the principle of this petty meddling and, once in a position of sufficient influence, rescind it. Or not.
ClubMan said:
It's an employer's prerogative to institute the sorts of systems and policies that they feel are needed for and best suited to their businesses. Nobody forces people to work for such employers. They do so of their own free will.
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