How restrictive is your works internet?

bitslice said:
I'd be interested in other thoughts on Net policy though, why do you do what you do?
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My work is office-based, booking translators / interpreters for clients. 90% done by webmail, the other 10% done by phone. The team I work for is a CS team, so I pick up a bit of the CS as well. My stance in net use is that it is a privilege (not a right), same with smoking breaks. If they're going out for a fag for 5 minutes at a time, 3 times a day, then I'm good to surf a few articles on BBC News or check Gmail. The main thing is that it mustn't affect work productivity. I'm quite lucky in that our net is fairly unrestricted and it's just blocking the odd random BBC page because it found a banned keyword or something.

One of my previous jobs, working in an MOD library, you could only access the company's intranet. It was a blanket ban from the web regardless to whether your work was classified or not
 
No restrictions as far as I can find. No IT department either to keep tabs on our browsing habits either.

In my previous job a lot of stuff was filtered during work horse including YouTube, Facebook, anything with game in the URL and other stuff too.
 
We have things like facebook, forums and shopping restricted during working hours, but free access before and after normal hours, and lunch.


we have gambling, adult content and ALL email sites blocked all the time, I dont get why the email thing.
 
I pretty much run the proxy at my school so for me it's as unrestricted as I need it, but obviously it's pretty heavily restricted for the pupils, and a bit less so for the staff.
 
Only inasmuch as the video codecs are seemingly irrevocably busted on my PC and we only have a 4mb/sec connection.
 
Vertiginous said:
I ran a proxy on my server and just forwarded the mac i was using in school and got it completely unrestricted again, Another crude way i used was to run the online team viewer client to my desktop, Took them a long time to figure out that one..
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If I were them I'd let you get on with it, accessing the net from an external computer means there is no threat to their systems. It's not IT's job to police internet usage, just to assess/mitigate any threats that result.
 
Choosing SysAdmin as a career means you can never be blocked, they always have to leave port 22 open for you and there is a lot you can do with an encrypted SSH tunnel.
 
Internet access is granted on a per user basis and the proxy blocks the standard games,porn,gambling,drugs,violence stuff. Social media is fine though.
 
JBod said:
Choosing SysAdmin as a career means you can never be blocked, they always have to leave port 22 open for you and there is a lot you can do with an encrypted SSH tunnel.
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Nah.

Configure SSH server to listen on 443, ALWAYS open if there is any kind of internet access.
 
Unrestricted in England. Currently working in Vietnam for a short period of time. Its pretty OTT here, no facebook, no bbc, can browse the odd Vietnamese News site (and OcUK). Everything mainstream is blocked.
 
Sites related to games and porn are blocked as default - otherwise unrestricted.

I'd prefer it if social media was blocked at work, given the timesink it can be for some people.
 
Unrestricted apart from Facebook which I'd guess is just one of the IT illiterate directors saying "non of that Facing book on my time"

Another firm had a nice system, 10 minutes unrestricted during the day for anything and 1-2 lunch unrestricted. Anything outside this had to be approved and related to work.
 
Ours is fairly locked down, we do have a machine that isn't purely for internet access though its a blessing during those quiet late shifts!
 
Ours is unrestricted as far as I know, but I'm not to push it by going to xvideo. Worst site I've been to is 4chan so far
 
At my last employer they blocked "everyone we don't think needs Internet access" through the group domain profiles.

When I questioned why my Internet wasn't working (bare in mind I was providing legal advice), they asked "why do you need it?". I gave my argument about keeping up to date with new guidance, legislation, keeping my CPD in order and generally needing access for technical queries but they chose to lock me out :rolleyes:

Their excuse was "someone" was hammering the Internet connection by browsing all day. They knew it wasn't me because I had a desk adjacent to the web admin and infront of the managing director, so out of principle I carried on with no web access and spent my breaks browsing on my phone in the canteen.

It was laughable really because you only had to log in as a user that had access and all was golden. I knew my boss's login details and could easily have logged on to do some browsing.i wouldn't say it was the reason I left, but it was one of the last reasons that pushed me to find a new role.
 
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