SRP blocked at work

Lo and behold some clever fruit basket at work has decided that anything with the word "blade" or "razor" in the domain name should be blocked.

I am therefore unable to visit SRP from work and have to resort to my phone. A little peeved off to say the least.

Is there anything that can be done to show that this place is indeed safe and contains no offensive content? Seems ludicrous that a shaving forum is barred - I can still access TSR which is UK based and Basenotes but this is really ridiculous now!

I know some filters can be bypassed by using https:// instead of http://

Pretty common thing. It prevents from getting distracted with non-work related things while at work.

They do the same thing where I work, but haven't blocked SRP yet.....
Facebook, YouTube, guns, knives, work union sites all banned

Stefan has it right though about the "you should be working, not playing", but hey they installed the computers and hooked up the internet...
The way I work I'd never get anywhere to get anything - so it's a blessing to have it available

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Originally Posted by Trimmy72

They do the same thing where I work, but haven't blocked SRP yet.....
Facebook, YouTube, guns, knives, work union sites all banned

Stefan has it right though about the "you should be working, not playing", but hey they installed the computers and hooked up the internet...
The way I work I'd never get anywhere to get anything - so it's a blessing to have it available

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They can't block our Union sites here. That would be a major event!

At my work the Lightspeed software blocks all forums, as well as any site that mentions anything that could be construed as a weapon. Work is a public school system so I can kinda understand why.

You also have to worry about big brother programs...you can be watched very well through your computer as they can document the amount of time you are active doing what. Keep that in mind when you are at work loafing & checking out non work related websites. I had this type of software installed on our server before I left for railroading. It can be a useful management tool if you have an employee that you need to let go & "need" a valid reason.

Yeah. There's all sorts of ways of dealing with that. Here's a few. Just for informational purposes, you understand:

8 Ways to Bypass a Firewall or Internet Filter - wikiHow

Well I totally understand what you guys mean. I work in IT so I should know better but at the end of the day it prevents me from coming here a lot more, which is a shame.

Too bad it's still 1990 and there's no practical way for a person to get internet service at home. Oh, wait...

That's downright un-American. Fun is over.........................

Only management has access to the web where I work. I am not in management but I could be, I'm certainly good looking enough...!!!

Every now and our system does this also but when I use safari instead of windows explorer it works hahahaha to the establishment

I suppose you could try a proxy website.

I have a bet with my supervisor and a fellow student: we'll not use internet or our phones for a week at the university. I told my supervisor I'd bring a book, he was not amused. Also, he's addicted to his webmail, so I'm not sure who's going to be more aggravated :p

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Originally Posted by Laurens

I suppose you could try a proxy website.

I have a bet with my supervisor and a fellow student: we'll not use internet or our phones for a week at the university. I told my supervisor I'd bring a book, he was not amused. Also, he's addicted to his webmail, so I'm not sure who's going to be more aggravated :p

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Why not use a tablet. No breach of the bet there :)

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Originally Posted by edhewitt

Why not use a tablet. No breach of the bet there :)

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For two reasons: I am disgusted by the tablet hype and because I'm still not allowed to use the internet on it. I can use my laptop, just no internet.

At my work the parent company has sort of a comical way of blocking sites. The Big Brother way is to show you a blank screen with one dialogue box with all the blah blah blah as to why you can't go where you think you should. The comical part is that on other sites you will actually see a fragment of the 'I see you' box somewhere on the page. I'm about as far away from IT as you can get. Metaphorically, I'm making arrowheads from obsidian, but they haven't touched SRP. Full disclosure: I never surf when there is work to do....dead time only. So I am grateful to SRP for many entertaining and informative moments in the 8:30 to 5:30 slot.

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Originally Posted by Siguy

Yeah. There's all sorts of ways of dealing with that. Here's a few. Just for informational purposes, you understand:

8 Ways to Bypass a Firewall or Internet Filter - wikiHow

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WOW....pretty cool info.
Thanx