While we have corporate Internet gateways, the local office has its own (to assist in communication with a major client). Sometime in the last couple of days, they’ve turned on some port blocking and content filtering on that gateway, which is causing me problems.<\/p>\n
So, okay, I can’t exactly ask to have YouTube access reinstated, and blocking some gaming sites is difficult to argue against with a straight face (at least not without putting a big target on said face). But one of the things apparently blocked is Yahoo Instant Messenger.<\/p>\n
Now, we don’t have a formal IM standard in the around. There’s a nascent pilot project going on using internal Exchange servers, but that never got a lot of traction. There are a variety of concerns, but, surprisingly, the biggest is not that people will fritter away their time chatting with their SOs and buds, but that company-sponsored and -sanctioned IM tools could be considered subpoenable business records. So folks do it, but without any sort of formal approval or standard setup from IT or anything like that.<\/p>\n
My department — including my boss and his — tend to use YIM as the IM client of choice (I prefer GTalk, but they didn’t consult me first). But now that I’m cut off, I can’t make use of it.<\/p>\n
But that’s the lever I have — I’ve put in an inquiry about whether YIM is blocked, citing it as a legitimate (if not official) business purpose. That at least gives me the appearance of asking about such things without sounding like I’m grumpy because I can’t look at YouTube or stream audio from Amazon or stuff like that. And, in fact, it is a legitimate inquiry, and the thing causing me the most fits right now..<\/p>\n
Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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