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Anemophilous Coward writes "Tom's Hardware has a story detailing cDc's new anonymity app, just demonstrated Sunday. Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked by government restrictions, and is essentially, a distributed proxy network. It uses a peer-to-peer model, masking the identity of each node. This means the user can route around censorship that blocks citizens' access to specific IP addresses, because the censor doesn't know they're going there. There is also a website dedicated to the project."
If someone has blocked you from the PrOn sites, you get this device and you still get to peek-a-booty ???
Dude, you're such a tease... nakedhairyeyebrowedcheerleaders.com doesn't even exist!
And here I was getting all excited...
I don't administer any kind of network (apart from the 4 Linux & 1 Win98 at home). However, you don't have to be a sysadmin to be patronising and arrogant. And my uid is not particularly low. It's about two orders of magnitude too high to get a proposal of marriage from CmdrTaco.
They are not drones because they are windows users. The reverse would be more accurate.
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this supposdly "non vaporware" still isn't downloadable from the peekabooty website.
Just because people have seen it run, doesn't make it non vaporware, it has to be distributed.
So where's the Beef? ([lame joke]or should that be dead cow?[/lame joke])
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Meanwhile, those of us who know how to deal with other people as human beings (as opposed to support tickets) will be having dinner with the new girl from accounting.
"If things go well I might be showing her my O face."
I don't care how low your uid is, I still find your referring to employees as drones to be patronising and arrogant.
That's right. Please refer to them more accurately. Call them "lusers".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I'd like to use this, but my company has blocked access to the site.
Guess you've been living user a rock...
Right or wrong, companies exist to make money. People who surf porn on their lunch hour potentially pose a threat to that reason for existance.
HOW, you say? Companies are liable for all kinds of sexual harassment, including the lone lunchtime pornography viewer. SH lawsuits are expensive and troublesome. The legal test for what is SH is much wider than most would guess. Companies spend a lot of time educating their managers on what might be considered SH and what their responsibilities are to limit the companies exposure to a lawsuit.
The company decides they can't afford any SH problems.
They come up with a list of stuff that is easily under their control and write policies so that everyone knows what is expected.
One policy is that you aren't supposed to use the company computers and networks to look at pornography.
The company reasonably wants to prevent/detect violations of this policy and sets up appropriate measures.
Not that hard to understand. Don't like it, find another company that doesn't have this policy. Good luck trying to bring it up in the interview.
So, um... what is your policy on internet surfing?
What do you mean?
Um, do you like block anything and keep track of where people surf during work?
Yes, why do you ask?
Well, I think that is bogous censorship, man. I should be able to look at whatever I want as long as I get me job done!
Ok! Thank you for coming down... we'll let you know.