Websense are blocking me, again…
Extract from e-mail, follows. I am being polite, to see how far it
gets me. I find the below-cited issue with stemming - viz: that
multiple versions of the same URL, distinct by merely a trailing
slash, are treated differently - I find that rather annoying.
More updates will be posted as/when the situation warrants.
Subject: Re: Suggest a Change to the Websense URL Database
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:56:16 +0000
To: “Websense DB Update” <databasechange@websense.com>
Hello again!
In March 2004 I wrote to you, explaining that my website had been
miscategorised by Websense; you speedily corrected the matter, and I
attach a copy of your response to me, below.
I have once again begun to receive reports from friends that my
website is oddly categorised - it appears that many subdirectories of
my website still beat the designation of “Hacking”, as opposed to
“Computer Security” - or, indeed, “Pictures of Alec’s Friends” which
some of them are.
For instance: here are the results of three separate lookups that I
have just performed, using the tool at
[www.websense.com] - note that the first two
URLs differ only in that the second has a trailing “slash”:
Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm
Category: Computer Security <———- GOOD: SECURITY RESEARCH!
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1
Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/
Category: Hacking <———– BAD: HACKING? FOR THE SAME URL?
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1
Products > Resources > Site Lookup Tool
Results for http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/
URL: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/
Category: Hacking <——————— BAD: HACKING?
Database version: 92160
Database date: 07 Dec 2004
Product used: Websense Enterprise v5.1
I would be grateful therefore if you would kindly PURGE ALL references
for crypticide.org and crypticide.com from your database, so that we
can start over again, classifying it - if you classify it at all - as
a security research site.
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