Comment Re:Easy and cheap (Score 1) 782
I don't know about you, Santa, but internet is a vital part of my workplace. I do .NET apps for Colorado State U, and when your business is providing internet service to users (just like those fellas doing LAN gaming places or net cafes), blocking port 80 is beyond dumb; it fucks up your entire business model. Let's just nuke Level 3 and take out the internet while we're at it...back to BBS? I don't think so.
Kinda the same thing with guns, cars+alcohol, the US military, or laser pointers...as long as there are idiots out there, we will have problems with these things being misused. In the mean time, they do have legitimate purposes, and you can't just deny everyone their use because a handful of dumbasses abuse them.
Any business, and ESPECIALLY any IT shop, has to be pretty archaic NOT to need to use the internet often. The solution is to kick those douche-bags who write spyware in the face and secure your network with the solutions mentioned earlier.
Kinda the same thing with guns, cars+alcohol, the US military, or laser pointers...as long as there are idiots out there, we will have problems with these things being misused. In the mean time, they do have legitimate purposes, and you can't just deny everyone their use because a handful of dumbasses abuse them.
Any business, and ESPECIALLY any IT shop, has to be pretty archaic NOT to need to use the internet often. The solution is to kick those douche-bags who write spyware in the face and secure your network with the solutions mentioned earlier.
