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Websense briefly classified the home page of networking giant Cisco as a hacking site earlier this week. As a result of the snafu, corporate users of Websense's web filtering technology were denied access to Cisco.com for about 15 minutes on Tuesday. Websense explained that the censorware cock-up arose because an IP address …

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  1. Christopher Martin

    Sad

    If you're a company as big as Websense, and your job is to do web filtering, how does "whitelist" not make the list of features? Surely if there were such a list, cisco.com would be on it.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Dynamic IP?

    I'd expect a major company like Cisco to have a more-or-less permanent IP address.

    "After a thorough investigation the site was reviewed and identified safe for browsing within 15 minutes."

    'Thorough investigation' and '15 minutes' really don't belong in the same sentence.

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  3. Dave Bell

    Odd excuse

    It's possible that cisco.com has changed its IP address--it might be on a server farm somewhere--but something about the excuse feels a bit dodgy.

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  4. Wortel

    And this is why

    IP-based blocking simply does not work in today's world.

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  5. Glenn Charles
    Boffin

    D**n

    You mean that isn't the right site for that?

    --Glenn

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