They Look At Porn All Day, So Others Won't Be Able To
from the quite-a-job dept
Ever wonder what sort of person takes a job looking at porn sites all day for web filtering companies? While (for some) it may sound like a dream job, those who have it say it isn't as much fun as you'd think. They also feel the need to keep their browsers as small as possible for people walking by their desks. I find it somewhat amusing that inside a company where they build porn filters, you're much more likely to accidentally see some porn as you're walking around the office. However, the group of people who work in the "porn filtering" department seem to be a little clique at the company. They eat lunch together. They hang out together on weekends... and they even share amusing websites with one another. The company has made counsellers available to the porn surfers, if they feel they need it. However, it sounds like it's not a problem for most of them. They quote one saying, "You become desensitized. It's just porn." Of course, this is the same company that has stuff on their webpage trying to scare potential buyers about the dangers of porn.
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Ghostzilla?
Why can't they use a browser like that if they're really concerned about what their employees or coworkers might be seeing by accident?
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Re: Ghostzilla?
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Porn surfing
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Re: Ghostzilla?
I don't surf any sites I shouldn't from work, just probably spend more time surfing than I should. This way when someone walks into my cubicle they don't see a screen full of color, they see what looks like an open e-mail in my Outlook app window and when I move my mouse away it turns into a real e-mail window.
Based on the amount of HTML based, image intensive porn spam I get, either they don't care about naughty pictures on the network or there are too many other people getting the same SPAM for them to filter through it all.
I've noticed recently that a majority of the spam I get (30-50 per day) the To: and CC: lines contain other people from within my company but from locations all over the globe, and it's usually the same set of names I'm seeing. Kind of makes me wonder what twisted path all of our e-mails went through before ending up in some spammer's list of 'real' addresses.
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according to Edwin Meeze...
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Re: Ghostzilla?
That's why I keep a stash of fake subscription
porn sites blocked to all execpt my work's subnet.
Then, when somebody leaves their terminal
unattended, I surf out to these sites (this is
much better than sending out a work-section
broadcast e-mail saying something completely
stupid and unlikely. You'd be surprised how
quickly you can climb the corproate ladder when
thouse around you are busy getting fired.
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