Further To The Misuse Of Computer In The Workplace.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410261/Parliaments-computers-used-log-porn-websites-300-000-times-year.html

That is if one can associate the Houses of Parliament as a workplace.

[jno]

they say it includes pop-ups, which can happen to anyone. At least they don't happen to me as I have pop-up blockers, and maybe Parliament should install them on all computers? (Or perhaps this can't be done.)

[VHG]

>>>>they say it includes pop-ups, which can happen to anyone

I don't think that is true.

If a computer has NEVER been use to visit a porn web site then you are VERY VERY unlikely to ever get a porn pop up.

You only get porn pop ups if the site HAS been used to look at porn.

[jno]

not necessarily, there's a sort of hinterland between porn and non-porn: humour sites, funny picture sites, that sort of thing, which may have links to porn sites or may not; it can be hard to tell.

Or you can just google something innocent like "shades of grey" when you're redecorating the hall...

[zebo]

If schools can block unsuitable sites why can't Parliament? I once had a class doing a Maths investigation, in the days of coursework, called Emma's Dilemma, they looked it up on t'internet for some short cuts and got some very interesting results.
Similarly when I needed to refurbish the computer mice and looked up mouse balls!

[Octavius]

"‘attempts to access websites categorised as pornography"

How is this defined? I am not tecchie and I would be interested to know how this is filtered for statistical purposes. There was talk of a .XXX domain but other than that, how is it extrapolated from all the gush and caboodle??

[jno]

good question, Octavius. Urban legend has it that some companies would ban sites that displayed too much flesh-coloured pink, which left the Financial Times aghast.

[Gromit]

There is clearly a problem with the data.

November 2012: 114,844
February 2013: 15
April 2013: 55,552
June 2013: 397


It ia differcult to conclude anything when the data is clearly wrong.

[AB Editor]

"That is if one can associate the Houses of Parliament as a workplace."

Excellent.

It may be Gromit that they were discussing the potential "great firewall" in Nov & Feb?

[Eve]

As I was saying on my earlier thread, we have a very robust firewall, can't access any social media, blogs, personal email accounts...

I would have thought the same were true for "dubious" sites though have never tried looking at any so have no idea.

I'm no techie either though maybe anything with certain words or maybe videos - we can't view youtube I don't think or anything like that so maybe that rules out naughty video sites?

[Gromit]

The article says there were attempts to access porn sites. It does not say any connections were successful. I would assume parliaments servers deny connections.

The huge number of connections in November is probably several computers infected with malware automatically try to connect rather than MPs. You do not have to have been on porn sites to get malware.

[Gromit]

The Best selling Smartphones in the UK, Samsung are especially vunerable to malware.

// Some 79% of malicious attacks on mobiles in 2012 occurred on devices running Google's Android operating system, US authorities have said. //

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23863495