{"id":16191,"date":"2019-08-29T02:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/29\/news-9933\/"},"modified":"2019-08-29T02:30:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T10:30:05","slug":"news-9933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/29\/news-9933\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_05-100796355-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s many years ago, and this pilot fish regularly travels to company offices around the country, dealing with IT-related problems and running user training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The big current project is implementing internet filtering after complaints that some workers are viewing inappropriate websites. So fish has to head to a meeting with many directors and managers to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the meeting site, fish sets up a laptop and projector and connects it to the internal network. Then he tests to make sure the filtering is working, calling up a blocked site that, if it does display, only shows a silhouette of a bunny with a bow tie.<\/p>\n<p>But not to worry: The site is blocked, so everything is ready.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting, fish explains the internet policy and what will happen if anyone tries to surf to a blocked site.<\/p>\n<p>Then he clicks on the link for the test site. And there\u2019s that bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Fish is relieved that all of the big shots seem to have a good sense of humor, but he really wants to know what happened between his test and the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI called the home office and talked with the staff responsible for the internet filtering. Their response: \u2018Oh, we had to take that offline to do maintenance. Was that big meeting today?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now would be a good time to tell Sharky<\/strong> <em>your true tale of IT life. Send it to me at <a href=\"mailto:sharky@computerworld.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">sharky@computerworld.com<\/a>. You can also subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3431674\/throwback-thursday-timing-is-everything.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.idgesg.net\/images\/article\/2019\/05\/cw_sharktank_3x2_2400x1600_05-100796355-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>It\u2019s many years ago, and this pilot fish regularly travels to company offices around the country, dealing with IT-related problems and running user training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>The big current project is implementing internet filtering after complaints that some workers are viewing inappropriate websites. So fish has to head to a meeting with many directors and managers to demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving at the meeting site, fish sets up a laptop and projector and connects it to the internal network. Then he tests to make sure the filtering is working, calling up a blocked site that, if it does display, only shows a silhouette of a bunny with a bow tie.<\/p>\n<p>But not to worry: The site is blocked, so everything is ready.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3431674\/throwback-thursday-timing-is-everything.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[4314,714],"class_list":["post-16191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-internet","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}