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: "Monahan, Jim CONT ATSC" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:11:33 -0400
Title: RE: [Fed-Talk] Government Blocking of Mac.com
Yes. Ft Eustis.
At one time, they also blocked the Apple support/discussions forum as "chat" (but I got that one lifted - I argued it is a support resource, and most hw/sw manufacturers have user to user support board - and those weren't blocked)
DOIM Also blocks downloads from both the Apple software update and any link clicked on
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads as "shareware/freeware"
After much debate, I did get them to unblock those two sites for a specific IP address - so I have a lone machine that can access them.
Most webmail sites are also blocked. But I have to agree, what they do/don't block is often strange.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+monahanj=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+monahanj=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Michael Kluskens
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:53 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Government Blocking of Mac.com
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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