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Do IT Pros Abuse Their Power?
An anonymous reader writes "I have noticed that many airports and hospitals I've visited have some kind of internet usage policy in place. Some use software similar to Websense, which effectively blocks sites based on blacklisting them by category. A commonly used blacklist prevents users from accessing 'forums or discussion boards,' yet I find that often these networks allow users to access sites like Fark, Slashdot, Digg and other message boards that appeal to the technical culture one might find in the IT world. In your experience, do IT administrators abuse their supervisory powers? Has there ever been a backlash from users or management for doing so?"
To save anyone else from having to Google, BOFH means 'bastard operator from Hell'.
Actually that should read, 'to boost my karma' :-P
A few years ago I got paranoid about DNS with firewall rules so the local machines can only get to the local DNS server and it can only get to two servers outside - I think that's a fairly common setup. How is SSH over DNS going to work at all in such a situation where all other DNS traffic is dropped?