Felten's blog classed as "hacking" site by firewall

Freedom to Tinker, the security blog maintained by the Princeton's esteemed engineering prof Ed Felten, has been blocked by a personal firewall from a company called Barracuda, which has classified the site as a "hacking" site.

Censorware and firewall companies are incapable of accurately judging and categorizing the Internet. Boing Boing's guide to defeating censorware can help you do something about it. Link

Update: Dave sez, 'The network at a previous job of mine had Barracuda, and at various times they blocked BoingBoing as "hacking," Wonkette as "pornography," and all sites associated in any way with computer games as "game playing" (while leaving open all sites having to do with sports, of course).'

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