F’ing Websense

by on Oct 28, 2009

If you don’t see me posting as often to this blog, it’s because my office uses Websense and now drivelocity is blocked. I hope to find a way around it soon. Suggestions are welcome :)

  • http://www.jdmengineimports.com JDM Engines

    Could be worse, at my company we use a barracuda firewall which essentially blocks our internet access based on windows user groups.

    So all the managers get to browse whatever they want (some even look at inappropriate sites) while us normal peons cant even access our yahoo mail. I feel your pain.

  • http://www.braquedubourbonnais.info/en/dog-name.htm Dog name

    It’s a pitty that so many firms are blocking more and more on the web. Does it make their employees more productive? I doubt it.

  • http://drivelocity.com drivelocity

    No way around it yet, but hopefully w/in the next few months I’ll have a netbook and/or blackberry, so I should be good to go…

    I have found some methods that might work, including connecting to my home computer and surfing via that, but that could get me into more trouble than it’s worth.

  • http://www.reallyeasycart.co.uk ecommerce websites

    The best wayout is stupidcensorship.com you just enter your URL in the space provided and hit enter. You can browse any websites which are blocked by websense or any other software.

    - Vincent T.

  • http://drivelocity.com drivelocity

    Vincent, …unless, of course, that site is blocked as well. I’ll give it a try, but I have a feeling it is…

  • http://www.ihatemyexsomuch.com ex girlfriend

    You still can’t post? It’s been like 3 months now. Hope you didn’t give up!

    -Kai

  • http://dumbworld.com drew

    goodluck with getting your internet back. yea that happened to me at my old job. we got bought and they instantly blocked all of the fun websites. . . so I quit.

  • http://drivelocity.com drivelocity

    Well, I’m still here, waiting patiently and working on a solution. I just posted from my new Blackberry using the app from WordPress, but it’s time consuming… I’ve also brought my new netbook to the office, but there aren’t any open wifi connections. So the next thing to try is tethering the two together. I’ll be sure to post about that ASAP.

  • http://www.moneytoplist.com Affiliate

    I guess that using some proxy server may help. It is possible that some proxy servers are blocked, so try to find some new which is not in any list.

  • http://drivelocity.com drivelocity

    I’m only willing to so far to cirmumvent the system and I don’t want to out of my way to find trouble. It’s a safe bet that a lot of sites I would find that info on are already blocked, or aren’t trustworthy.

  • http://www.gemstoneslist.com/moonstone.html Moonstone

    Seems so many offices are doing this now. Either that or spying on employees browsing habits etc. It’s understandable, if I was an employer I might not want my workers randomly surfing during office time – but you could avoid all this by letting people do whatever they want and firing the ones who underperform. Seems a better strategy, you’ll keep the ones who are motivated and who want to achieve.

  • http://www.tips-free-bets.com Marco Narardi

    I had to change my gmail account to Yahoo account as I couldn’t access Google. Came on, Google the first site in the net…and funnily enough I work on online marketing. Poor decision