Slashdot.org one of the popular tech website is banned from being accessed from US Military network. Why is slashdot being banned by US Military? Does it contains dangerous/harmful information to its personnel?
The real reason for it being banned is unclear, but from an article in Newsforge, it is understood that the ban is caused by Slashdot.org being miscategorized as Newsgroups by Blue Coat, a standard web proxy tool used by the US Military.
Well to me, this is not the first thing happened with web filtering software miscategorizing websites. I had tons of problem with annoying softwares that banned unnecessary websites mostly because they use broad keyword match to ban a website, *sigh*.
I rather wait for my pc to be back online again, rather than to use a pc with annoying web filtering software/proxy.
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