IGX

Past few weeks I've been accessing IGX during work hours, while on the work VPN. Today this:

WARNING! BLOCKED WEBSITE WARNING!

You have attempted to reach an Internet website identified as non-business related, restricted, or otherwise inappropriate.
Failure to comply with company policies may result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

Blocked Page information

URL - http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/index.php
Block Category - Forum/Bulletin Boards;Profanity
Proxy - Mobility

If you believe there is a legitimate business reason to access this site, please click the button below to process an exception request.
Note: The exception request process requires approval (at a minimum) from management at pay level 3. If you do not want management notified of your request, please do not submit an exception request.

Your submitted request may take up to five business days to process once approved

Oops.

Well, I was curious how closely our traffic was monitored. Now I have some idea.

Back to the grindstone, I guess....

JimZipCode wrote:Past few weeks I've been accessing IGX during work hours, while on the work VPN. Today this:

WARNING! BLOCKED WEBSITE WARNING!

You have attempted to reach an Internet website identified as non-business related, restricted, or otherwise inappropriate.
Failure to comply with company policies may result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

Blocked Page information

URL - http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/index.php
Block Category - Forum/Bulletin Boards;Profanity
Proxy - Mobility

If you believe there is a legitimate business reason to access this site, please click the button below to process an exception request.
Note: The exception request process requires approval (at a minimum) from management at pay level 3. If you do not want management notified of your request, please do not submit an exception request.

Your submitted request may take up to five business days to process once approved

Oops.

Well, I was curious how closely our traffic was monitored. Now I have some idea.

Back to the grindstone, I guess....

Stop wasting the resources of your corporate masters. You should be ashamed of yourself.

fuck that. burn that shit down and get your goddamn stapler back.

You using IE or Firefox? If IE, try Firefox - there's a bug most don't know about in certain versions of certain VPN clients which will route non-VPN traffic out over the web directly.

Also, if you're jonesing for porn, most URL filtering servers permit you to go to google, search images, with safe search off. You could always do some tasty screen snips, and send them onto the IT guys. This "hole" in the fabric really pisses them off. I've seen idiot tech managers spend literally weeks of their time trying to figure out how to stop this.

Another good trick: setup WATIR on your work PC, get a list of a few thousand porn sites, and program WATIR to sequentially cycle through the list, one after the other. This will drive the IT guys batty, and they'll want to examine your machine. Remove WATIR, empty your cache, and let them look at it. They'll of course find nothing.