Nov
28
2006
Damn you Websense!

Websense's page when blocking PS3Passion.com

So Websense has foiled me again.  This time they attacked my own site!  No not this site, but instead my PS3Passion.com site.  Damn you!  But I ask, why now?  PS3Passion has been around since May 2005, and it was never blocked before.  But now all of a sudden it flagged my site as a "games" site and will not let me access it from work.

Perhaps this is due to me revamping the site from scratch and getting rid of the PHP-Nuke CMS.  I don't know.  It doesn't make sense!  It's not like my PS3 site gets tons of traffic and attention.  Maybe it's my meta tags.  I don't know.  But now I will not be able to access or work on my PS3Passion site from work anymore.  Shame, that's where I got most of my work done.

For those who don't know, Websense is an Internet filter that blocks certain types of web sites from being viewed while at work or school.  Most of the site they block are more or less sites I wouldn't visit at work anyways (ie pr0n).  But there are a few sites that I like to go to that Websense has blocked.  Mainly video game sites.  No, not sites where you play cute little flash games, but instead video game news sites where I can read up on all my favorite games.

I shall one day destroy you Websense....and your little dog too!

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This article was published 3y 3mon ago on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:26 pm by Nick Villescas. It was published under the following topics: Personal and with the following tags: PHP-Nuke, PS3 Passion, Websense. So far this article has received 3925 hits with 13 comments.
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Paul Smith // guest

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How about remote desktoping to your home machine and by-passing Webnonsense that way?

Nick Villescas // author

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Yeah, I could do that.  My work likes to send out scare-tactic emails warning people not to use proxy avoidance sites or RDC to bypass websense, claiming they can track it and get you in trouble.

But my current job has me using RDC all the time to access remote servers.  So yeah, I guess I could use it to access my home pc.  Thanks.
3y 2mon ago // January 10, 2007 7:20 am
sxcme923 // guest

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i hate webscence i have a proxy firewalldown.com
2y 11mon ago // April 11, 2007 2:00 pm
blaze_9875 // guest

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I"m behind you you all the way websense has blocked way to many good  sites so i say to hell with them to hell!!!

kyle // guest

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fuck you websense!! i have it on my school comp and it blocks everything! im even allowed to bring the laptop home and it's still all blocked! WTF WEBSENSE!? FUCK YOU!
2y 5mon ago // October 15, 2007 5:25 am
roxy // guest

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dude websense sucks. for the first week i was able to  acsess all my site with the exception of 1 or 2 but i could care less about those websites. then one day websense completly blocked like everywebsite! i have no reason to even go on my computer anymore! arrggg!!!!! it's driving me insane. all i have left is my laptop which i rarly get the time to use. i wish websense would just leave us all alone.
        i like the one i had. it prevented pop us and site that perv's hang out on. yay! then websense came. can't get newground, myspace, facebook, deviantart, and so manymore. websense is ruinging my computer life.
1y 10mon ago // April 24, 2008 9:00 am
kassi // guest

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know of any cool sites not blocked? Like games, quizzes, etc? or another way around websense?
Jake // guest

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I'm in college. Our IT guy is an ass. I want to blog about WS too
I hate it! Its a graphic school, and we can't look at things like flickr for photo resources.
Websense is a product of the devil that should burn in hell for eternity
and so should our IT guy!... but he probably will, so I shouldn't joke.
2mon 12d ago // December 31, 2009 9:06 am
Anthony // guest

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I will destroy websense it blocks websites tha dont need blocking
1mon 7d ago // February 04, 2010 9:46 am
guy // guest

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frkin websnce ge a flsh drive get a proxy and hack t if posible :}
15d 14h ago // February 26, 2010 8:12 am
lunia // guest

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i need to get to Deviantart.com but the school proxied it, anyone have any websites?
12d 1h ago // March 01, 2010 9:29 pm
Justin // guest

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On computer at work. And I cant look at news websites. CNN, ABC, FOX, nothing if I want to check the weather I can and i can look at Headlines through other sites. Why can I come here but not look at the news? http://www.websense.com/content/URLCategories.aspx "... to ensure real-time protection against todays blended threats. [it blocks]...News and Media
Sites that offer current news and opinion, including those sponsored by newspapers, general-circulation magazines, or other media."
1d 10h ago // March 12, 2010 12:02 pm
Ellie // guest

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I absolutely agree. Websense pisses me off and my school has now blocked some of the most pointless things with it - "General Email" is now a bad thing?? And Im pretty sure they tried to block my other email as well, but it didnt work. Ha, HA.
Not to mention the fact that they got all the proxy aviodance websites too... I am SO very glad that Im a senior this year and soon I wont have to deal with this crap anymore.
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