PoA and websense

GeorgeC said:
This morning, I noticed that a couple of threads were dinged by our benevolent websense filter for being in the "weapons" category:

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46249&page=2

http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46337

Sigh.
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A former employer used websense. I remember trying to buy RF cable adapters from a legitimate website. Websense blocked it for sexual content; apparently it didn't like the term "gender changer." Solution: carry laptop to the bar across the street and use their wifi to complete the transaction. Sigh, indeed.
 
I had Websenseless block AVG when I was trying to update my anti-virus a bunch of years ago. I asked the helplessdesk to unblock it. Their response was, "we block sites like that so you won't infect our network with viruses." Really! They actually said that.

When I explained that this was for anti-virus updates, they didn't budge. My workaround was using their FTP site. Seems Websenseless didn't know about FTP.
 
websense blocked almost all the Oracle sites I hit at a prior client - labeled as "social media" or similar...
 
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