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- craighoxton, on 11/09/2008, -4/+57I think white smears on your monitor and keyboard are tell-tale signs
- CoreyTamas, on 11/09/2008, -1/+29I'm guessing that'd be: If you're getting paid to work, put the porn away for a while.
- doctorfungi, on 11/09/2008, -0/+23Rub one out in the shower before you leave for work.
- Azerael, on 11/09/2008, -0/+17Why would you watch porn at work? Unless you work from home or something...
- PxCxG, on 11/09/2008, -3/+19If I thought that any significant portion of Diggers were actually employed gainfully, I would think there would be a whole lot of scared diggers out there...
- martalli, on 11/09/2008, -0/+14They were very careful and complete in their description of why you would want to prevent pornography in the workplace. The authors must have felt that CNET's audience wasn't naturally inclined to prevent pornography, but had to be persuaded.
- doublefelix, on 11/09/2008, -1/+12Don't download the cover shots with your porn torrents.
- tonicboy, on 11/09/2008, -1/+12"Orem, Utah-based forensic-software maker Paraben plans to introduce..."
Damn those Mormons - kimbja98, on 11/09/2008, -0/+10I'm surprised this tool is needed. Can't you wait 'till you get home??! At work, focus on work. This is why the internet is restricted and they also frown on facebooking etc.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+10$17,000!!!!! Didn't they already invent this a couple years ago? It just counted the percentage of flesh-colored pixels. Then if one user hits a certain level above normal, the admin spot checks their traffic. The only problem that I remember is that it had a difficult time detecting visitors to ebonyjungleluv.com
- xcise, on 11/09/2008, -0/+9It's lovely that they have a preview window...
- ghast, on 11/09/2008, -0/+9and that's why you do your private browsing over an ssh SOCKS proxy when at work :)
- 3rdDay, on 11/09/2008, -1/+10It's absolutely fair that employers use this. People are there to work, not download adult material. The effect on other staff and the image of the company are also important as are the legal consequences of employees viewing illegal material.
Anybody who views porn at work is asking for their marching orders as far as I'm concerned. - 3rdDay, on 11/09/2008, -1/+9In the workplace? Hell no. I have a government job in healthcare and they have an instant firing program for that sort of thing. Fair enough; the computers I work on handle patient records and they can't take chances.
At home? Well bit torrent + movies is a different story... - Suricou, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8Store your porn on USB key, and use firefox portable on same.
I'm guessing it looks for skin tone, so look at black porn. Or furry porn. - ChayesFSS, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8why do you really think IT want's an OC48?
- bodger, on 11/09/2008, -0/+8Finally a solution for those poor folks in IT who have to spend hours wading through boring vacation, family and pet photos before getting to the good stuff on employees computers.
- tarley, on 11/09/2008, -0/+7Californication anyone?
- Oztog, on 11/09/2008, -1/+8Simple solution, iphone+Youporn.
- Murdats, on 11/09/2008, -0/+6it would have been good times testing and training this program.
and they could so cash in some more if they release this as a porn finder for the internet or something as well. - theadvinci, on 11/09/2008, -0/+5And that's how internet usage decreased 50%.
- jollyfats, on 11/09/2008, -0/+5The first expected customer of this software will probably be Best Buy's Geek Squad.
- Ossuary, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Yes, the previous software (which our company had been forced to use on several occasions as a purely CYA effort) was pure junk. It would bring out way too many false positives that would cause us to drag a machine in for further testing. Waste of resources (cash and time). Not sure how this one will work, especially for design groups.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+4Pretty much.
- raptordrew, on 11/09/2008, -2/+5Thank God I work in a porn-safe workplace.
- Culyt, on 11/09/2008, -1/+4Encrypted filesystems such as Truecrypt and ensuring that your history is clean of incriminating filenames or thumbnail images.
You will also need a secure connection such as Tor or an encrypted proxy.
Not browsing for porn at work might also be a good idea...
☢ - inactive, on 11/09/2008, -2/+5Therapy.
- MacBookForMe, on 11/09/2008, -1/+4What are the counter measures, please?
- earlvanze, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3Not cleaning that up properly is just gross.
- Suricou, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3If someone wants to look at porn in the workplace, no amount of filtering is going to stop them.
This also applies to airline passangers. - inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3Avoid sites like blacksaggytitties.com and beasttube.com while at work.
- Kronos6948, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3I guess if you can't control your urges, use encryption, and use Eraser to erase the files.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+3I tried cracking down on porn at work and found the perpetrators were at the vice presidential level on up. Horses were involved.
- flangepiece, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2According to the Richard Gere Book of Facts, you should put a condom on it first.
- rmxz, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2So long as they apply the same rules to print media it seems fair. Perhaps a good analogy is if they open envelopes sent to employees searching them for porn.
At my previous job I got IT to add porn sites to the *approved* list of sites marketing could visit; since ads run on some porn sites were rather effective. - poidh, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2When it dries, yes.
Must have milk in it of course.
No, not that kind of milk. - stormofswords, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2Our productivity is shot! All of our employees are constantly masturbating and we can't get any work done!
- dickbain, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2Until any competent network security staff blocks unknown outbound ssh traffic or forces your computer to use their proxy via NAC or group policy. It's not difficult to prevent circumvention, but most companies don't implement these controls.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2It's a form of addiction.
Some people are addicted to porn. Some people are addicted to jerking off. Some people are addicted to both.
It's a little like obsessive compulsive disorder, but about personnal gratification.
Then of course, there's the jackass. He just doesn't realize that downloading porn from work is a bad thing. - interiot, on 11/09/2008, -1/+3Except proxies still allow traffic over HTTPS. And HTTPS, by definition, carries a completely encrypted stream.
There *are* some clues that such a stream is SSH (being connected for a long long time, for one). But I don't know how reliable this is, or whether there's software to do it. One Fortune 100 company that I know of has a very tight network policy, but SSH-over-HTTPS still gets through. - badollet, on 11/09/2008, -0/+2Computer says no.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1It's not filtering software, it's detection software.
- TheOneTrueGod, on 11/10/2008, -0/+1Can it be used to find the stuff on the net? Hehehe.
- y0urcl0ne, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1So now the supervisor gets to look at all the porn he wants.
- Dustin00, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1People still download porn at work?!?!????
Seriously?!???!!? - marioara, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1this is the invention which made work a lot sadder
- glinsvad, on 11/09/2008, -1/+2Firefox 3.1 in Private Browsing mode
- Suricou, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1No, the sickest *he* could imagine.
The sickest I can imagine goes well beyond what is physically possible. - speccy, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1.
- Irashtar, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1Impossible. I've been to 4chan, AND gurochan!
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