I worked at a place once that had a similar policy. The head of IT had a background in mind-games. So, he had fun with it.
Blocked websites would get you a nastygram page, along with a warning that repeated attempts would result in an email to your manager.
If you tried to use one of those 'proxy' sites that would try to get around blockers, You got an extra-special-nastygram. Told you that an email was immediately sent to your boss, and his boss, and the Director of IT.
Well, I tripped -that- warning once, (trying to do a task at my manager's request,) so I let him know I couldn't and he was going to get an e-mail about it.
"What? I don't see one... Go talk to IT and tell them we need it."
I pondered this as I walked to the IT office. Thankfully I had a great rapport with them, so as they went to put in an exception I asked.
One guy installed Ultrasurf. First time I'd seen it. I didn't come up w/ a way to defeat it at the edge so I added a reg entry that redirected the output of the exe to NULL. It's a fairly obscure hack; I had been using it to offline malware.
Blocked websites would get you a nastygram page, along with a warning that repeated attempts would result in an email to your manager.
If you tried to use one of those 'proxy' sites that would try to get around blockers, You got an extra-special-nastygram. Told you that an email was immediately sent to your boss, and his boss, and the Director of IT.
Well, I tripped -that- warning once, (trying to do a task at my manager's request,) so I let him know I couldn't and he was going to get an e-mail about it.
"What? I don't see one... Go talk to IT and tell them we need it."
I pondered this as I walked to the IT office. Thankfully I had a great rapport with them, so as they went to put in an exception I asked.
"So, does anyone really get an email?"
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