Makes you wonder what the contractor was doing creating the filter in the first place.
Government networks all have filters to block access to porn and illegal materials. I don't know what the PTO was like 30 years ago, but these days it's infamously demoralized and poorly managed. Particularly during the radical outsourcing of the Bush administration, I can easily believe they would have contracted with some commercial filter company and not provided adequate oversight. Also keep in mind that a major reason for the filters is to avoid claims of a hostile work environment due to stuff that co-workers are viewing, so the incentive is to over rather than underblock. In other words, apply Hanlon's Razor. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly