Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 19, 2006 05:40 AM
Where I work, I've found that slashdot.org gets blocked from time to time. It turns out to have nothing to do with content.
Slashdot.org does a port scan on every host that originates a port. My employer's intrusion detection system, not surprisingly, perceives this as the beginning of a potential attack on us, and automatically blocks the site. I don't know if other OSTG sites behave similarly, but if they do, this may be the last time I get to read NewsForge<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Since the article never provided any proof or confirmation that the content filters were blocking it, I consider it equally possible that it is not a government conspiracy to suppress certain types of information, but rather a reasoned response to a potential network attack by an organization who, we hope, should be paying close attention to this kind of thing.
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Maybe its not the content
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 19, 2006 05:40 AMSlashdot.org does a port scan on every host that originates a port. My employer's intrusion detection system, not surprisingly, perceives this as the beginning of a potential attack on us, and automatically blocks the site. I don't know if other OSTG sites behave similarly, but if they do, this may be the last time I get to read NewsForge<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
Since the article never provided any proof or confirmation that the content filters were blocking it, I consider it equally possible that it is not a government conspiracy to suppress certain types of information, but rather a reasoned response to a potential network attack by an organization who, we hope, should be paying close attention to this kind of thing.
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