Imagine my suprise this morning when I get to work and wanted to quickly check Free Republic for news and I could not. We use a product here at work called SmartFilter from Secure Computing. This product is a URL filtering package that allows the company to block URL's by categories that we can select, such as sex, sports, religion, etc. We implemented this product a couple of years ago mainly to protect the company from sexual harassment lawsuits due to people browsing porn sites. We only have the following categories blocked: Sex, Extreme/Obscene, and Useless. We allow everything else ...
