Re: [Fed-Talk] Government Blocking of Mac.com
Re: [Fed-Talk] Government Blocking of Mac.com
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Government Blocking of Mac.com
- From: Michael Kluskens <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:53:07 -0400
On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:13 AM, Claiborne, Ronald MAJ PEO EIS PM DCATS
wrote:
Is any military or govt. site besides Ft. Monmouth blocking
www.mac.com as a malicious P2P/File Sharing site?
I'd be interested in the rationale. Is there anything on
www.mac.com that couldn't be found on yahoo mail, aol, etc...?
Upon creating a new account in OS X you have the option of creating
a .Mac account, if you create it you can easily push files from your
computer to that site. I assume the issue is pushing files up, i.e.
sharing.
By the same logic, yahoo mail, etc. should also be blocked. Because
it is very easy to upload files to yahoo mail, etc.
Of course all messenger servers and equivalent web sites should also
be blocked as well, same reason.
From my view someone got a bright idea and does not understand all
the other equivalent sites that should be blocked. It's always
easier to block Mac/OS X features and sites than the equivalent
Windows features and sites.
It would be more straight forward if they just blocked everything and
then opened access to the sites that people have a business reason to
access, that's what I do for my kids (I think I forgot to act on the
last request I received, hope that does not interfere with his
homework).
I saw the note about a university blocking Apple updates, that I
can't come up with any reason for, no matter how extreme a point of
view I take, perhaps they should also block all access to
microsoft.com as well, those updates from Microsoft have in the past
disabled Windows OS.
Michael
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