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Re: Websense mistakenly classifies Microsoft.com as Marijuana-related site
From: Tom Van Vleck <thvv () multicians org>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:19:54 -0500
On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Fergie wrote:
Wishful thinking? ;-) Via The Register. [snip]Microsoft's software download site was briefly categorised as a marijuana-related site and blocked by censorware outfit Websense on Monday. Websense blamed human error for the slip-up (or should that be splif-up), which it was able to quickly correct.
When I worked at Taligent, we engineers had this gesture we made, of drawing on an imaginary spliff, meaning "what are they smoking?" that we used when the marketing guys gave a talk. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Websense mistakenly classifies Microsoft.com as Marijuana-related site Jeff Rosowski (Nov 04)