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Restricted Internet Access

[Deleted User] · 2008-05-06 15:01:49

I'm in work and the internet is restricted. The only sites that I can access are eircom.ie, boards.ie, and rte.ie. The rest of the internet seems to be blocked/restricted. I really want to be able to go to gmail and the like so I was wondering if anyone knows how to get around this in order to be able to view sites. Thanks

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#52 08-05-2008 7:30pm

Eoin

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colm_c wrote: »

It's likely that the IT policy is fairly strict in OP's company -- they don't want employees looking at non-work content on company time -- costing them time and money.

I used to work there myself, so know their internet policy quite well. As I said, message boards, blogs and newsgroups are all blocked. This is quite inconvenient for developers, given the wealth of resources in these types of websites.

Rather than open a category of websites to a person, they tend to do it by a site by site basis - which is not very useful given that you could need to look at any number of sites, plus the turnaround time and general hassle of getting it opened (approval from 2 levels of management etc).

colm_c wrote: »

Personal email could suck hours of time every day during which you're supposed to be working.

The other angle is that they want to protect their IP (Intellectual Property) and having webmail available makes stealing the information a whole lot easier -- similar reason why some companies won't have any cd-burners in their machines.

I completely agree with webmail being blocked, and have said so a number of times on this thread. There's too many security risks.

My issue is that IT tend to be the self-appointed judges of what's appropriate or not to look at, when they often have no idea. They forget that in most cases their primary purpose is to support the business units. In many cases they do have to deny requests so they don't compromise the network, but this isn't one of them.

IT should only block sites that are dangerous to the network (or could completely choke bandwidth etc), illegal or clearly inappropriate (e.g. pr0n). It is then up to the managers to decide what they don't want their employees viewing.

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