Holy cats....

[anahata56]

I haven't been around much lately--there has been busy-ness abounding, and I haven't even paid much attention to reading here. And I apologize for that, because, in catching up this morning, I've found that I've missed a LOT

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[captain_phil]

you are all too dangerous to be allowed that close to the work server

me? dangerous?

[anahata56]

Oh hell yah.

"Social networking", doncha know. The very ROOT of all viruses and hacking.

Our IT security guys are so paranoid that they'd have us virtually double-bagging whenever we legitimately go on the internet.

I always love it when they provide us a link to check something out and it turns out the link sends us to a blocked site.

Always a good time.

[captain_phil]

Oh yes! I can see where viruses and hacking can appear suddenly from someone's pictures from a drunken weekend in Cincinnati.

Or pictures from anywhere else, I just used that because that was the last vast quantity of pictures I posted.

[anahata56]

I'm not saying it's sane--I personally think they've flipped their nuts, honestly. But nope--no LJ, no webmail, no way to possibly contact anyone from the outside world....

It's sad.

[rickvs]

Would they let you install something like the free version of logmein.com's software, which would let you remotely control your home computer from work? That'd let the remote computer assume the security risks -- and also have some, uh, other benefits :>

This arrangement would only require a small browser plugin on the work machine, if that helps your argument.

[anahata56]

Downloading any non-approved software is grounds for termination.

Yeah, they take it just that seriously.

I think that the problem is that there is so much confidential information that we work with every day--financial information, health information, just about every form of information defined by the feds as private and legally protected--that they're terrified of a hack or any sort of opening that would let in a scan of any kind. And in a way, I can understand that completely and even appreciate it--I wouldn't necessarily trust a company who would expose me to that kind of issue just so their employees could play on LJ.

But it doesn't make it a whole lot of fun.

I've gotten used to it--it's been that way for at least five years. But it's still annoying.

I could probably throw some money at the problem and log in via my cell phone, though....