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2002/11/9-10 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers] UID:26492 Activity:moderate

11/9    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1853200&mode=thread&tid=154
        porn surf at work is now safe.
        \_ uh whatever.  who is actually surfing porn at work?  who do you
           work for?  i need a stock to short.
           \_ Tech support at the company I worked for routinely visited
              pr0n sites. Since we were one of the primary providers of
              web hosting boxes to online pr0n sites they claimed it was
              all work related...
              I'd give you a stock symbol, but the company doesn't exist
              anymore.

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slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/08/1853200&mode=thread&tid=154Public Terminal Log in 58 Create a new account Related Links 59 Mozilla 60 Ghostzilla 61 with simple mouse gestures 62 More on Mozilla 63 Also by michael This discussion has been archived. Change The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Now Mozilla will be on that hot list of stuff not able to download and use at the office! Devious (Score:5, Interesting) by 95 trevinofunk (576660) on Friday November 08, @04:50PM ( 96 #4628410) This is one of the most devious things I've seen in a while! It reminds me of old shareware PC games, where you could hit the F9 key to escape to a DOS shell, so you wouln't get caught at work. Re:Devious (Score:4, Insightful) by 97 idfrsr (560314) on Friday November 08, @04:54PM ( 98 #4628449) IIRC I think that chessmaster 1000 also had this feature that brought a dummy financial statement on F9 useful to say the least. The big stuff makes good software but its the little things that make a program great. After all no coder worth his salt could stay awake in front of a sheet of financials. Ever since the beginning, they have had a "Boss" button to click so it would load your browser with something official and work-looking. Of course, any detailed look at these "work-looking" documents shows a bit of humor, like ratio of donuts eaten per producer per show, graphs showing increase in mailbombs sent to the office, and the precent of NPR listeners who wish they'd never heard of their show. You would press the boss key and have something like this popup: "So you don't want your boss to know you've been playing Space Quest III for X minutes? I think it was Leisure Suit Larry 3, but don't quote me on that) had a boss mode that'd throw up a fake spreadsheet and pie-chart. You're just staying abreast of the latest technological happenings. Panic (Score:1) Friday November 08, @08:04PM 165 1 reply beneath your current threshold. Of course, the problem comes when you remember to use one gesture, and forget to stop using the other one. To say the least, it'll be tough explaining to your boss why you're masturbating to an Excel chart. Perfect for viewing websites that you shouldn't be, with the added bonus that if you run it remotely through an ssh connection, the sysadmins *CAN'T* look up your history in the proxie logs. Re:links (Score:4, Insightful) by 233 Qzukk (229616) on Friday November 08, @04:59PM ( 234 #4628496) Text-based browsing is the way to go for "clandestine" browsing sessions. Especially if your job consists of programming anyway, from a distance it all looks the same. Even better, if you're a web developer, just browse in source form, then nobody at all will be able to tell you're slacking off instead of working on the new internet site. Even better, use the -D option on newer versions of OpenSSH to do dynamic port forwarding. Then point Mozilla or Netscape's SOCKS4 proxy to the port you specify. Everything you browse will then be proxied over your SSH connection and appear to come from your ADSL host to remote sites. Works pretty well in my experience without the hassle and overhead of setting up a squid proxy or running a full X application on a remote host. That's like defending against an foreigh threat to the United States by stripping Americans' of all their civil liberties! If you want to play I'll route you into a hole and wait for you to complain so I can show you the logs. If you get really stupid I'll have your job and a pat on the back. Everyone knows that good sysadmins check the proxy logs to find the really good asian schoolgirl sites! Flibble (Score:2) Friday November 08, @06:01PM + 302 Re:The Difference by No-op (Score:2) Friday November 08, @08:54PM + 303 Re:The Difference by Phroggy (Score:2) Saturday November 09, @12:21AM 304 Re:The Difference by Mr. Flibble (Score:1) Saturday November 09, @12:47AM * 305 Re:The Difference by nyseal (Score:1) Friday November 08, @07:21PM * 306 Re:The Difference by Cervantes (Score:1) Friday November 08, @06:29PM * 307 Re:The Difference by Cervantes (Score:1) Wednesday November 13, @01:01PM + 308 1 reply beneath your current threshold. If they're REALLY serious, they'll check your machine periodically for unapproved software. I've worked plenty of places where IS and IS only were allowed to install ANY software. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination. Even though most of us were developers with years of experience, unauthorized installation of anything was potentially grounds for termination. My last job was like that, and productivity was very poor. You have to move fast, and delaying for a week to get IS to approve and install some kind of utility or program you need is rediculous. Those companies deserve what they get, which is probably bankruptcy. Panic (Score:1) Friday November 08, @08:33PM * 381 2 replies beneath your current threshold. Ghostzilla is a browser for surfing the Web when you don't want anyone to physically see what you are doing. It renders Web pages to look indistinguishable from your work screen. You make it disappear instantly with one move of your hand and bring it back with another. Ghostzilla can show Web pages discreetly within literally any application you work with. I'd believe everyone would be better of if you waited atleast some 30 minutes before hitting that download button. That's because the office is, of course, the best place in the world to oggle porn. I'd think that looks worse than being "caught" visiting cnn or slashdot every so often. And at my work, like most other workplaces no doubt, they check the proxy logs anyways, so it wouldn't be much of a gain. It would be very easy to write a little script to go through and identify the "top" web surfers and to see who's surfing sites with pr0n-related terms, or anonymizing sites. Even the humans do this, seems to me like most of the tech support guys searching for 'inappropriate' material are looking in the IE history anyways. For added 'security', have another browser (IE) in the dock for when the boss wants you to look something up, or show you something. There are actually a lof functions that you can peform with the windows key - it's not just to bring up the start menu. Not because he's opposed necessarily, just because it's all straight, and he's definitely NOT. I browsed his bookmarks accidentally when I was messing with Outlook for him. And apparently at the company staff only Xmas party a year before I started, he was tanked enough to scream "holy shit, she's got tits" about one of the interns that had only been around a few months. Panic (Score:1) Friday November 08, @08:48PM * 471 1 reply beneath your current threshold. It's extremely efficient to simply leave terminal windows and applications maximized in their own workspace and just hop between the screens when you need to switch to a different app. It's like tabbed browsing, once you get used to it, it's hard to go back to the old way. The author didn't figure out how to send referrers with the requests, which is annoying because many porn sites require a correct referrer header, but there are several workarounds included with Leech. I can envision many situations when it could make things much worse. Back in the day when I blindly opened executable file attachments without thinking, (Hey I was a kid, I didn't know about viruses and network security. You know, the ones that opened up a porn pic of a man playing with himself, that u just couldn't close. Little did I realise, that it had spawned a child process. To my (and the rest of the JAM PACKED computer lab's) horror, a mans voice singing. So basically no amount of hand waving will save your job, if your boss looks at a computer screen full of windows containing work relevant source code, while he hears the moans of a hentai anime school girl being pleasured by a giant robot. It makes me sig as a dog 511 Mozilla by cx (Score:1) Friday November 08, @07:13PM * 512 Re:Mozilla by Da VinMan (Score:2) Friday November 08, @07:35PM 513 Thank god for Google by Masami Eiri (Score:1) Friday November 08, @07:29PM * 514 Re:Thank ...