AT&T offically blocks access to BGR, game on!
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Alright AT&Tizzle, you won. You’ve blocked people from accessing BGR on your network (unless they are pretty high up), so we’re blocking you. That’s right. All the higher-ups will no longer be able to surf BGR. They’ll have to resort to viewing our scoops on the thousands of sites that pick them up. It was fun while it lasted, but we have a feeling you’ll miss us a lot more than we’ll miss you.
UPDATE: Looks like we’re frandz again. AT&T has removed the block on BGR! Thanks, tipsters!
It’s not just this site, they blocked the majority of “outside” sites for employees. Just about every site is blocked if it doesn’t directly pertain to sales or support.
It sucks, but they also blocked ebay, and a ton of other sites we used to frequent.
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Tmobile still loves you! Maybe you should post more news on them now
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kinda funny… AT&T still ranks as one of the best places to work… guess those surveys don’t ask: “Does your company treat you like a child by blocking access to the internet?”
I heard from a friend that even wikipedia is blocked from internal access… very funny.
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Oh… looking at the image of that screen it says the Block Category says “Personal Pages”. Maybe it’s more a matter of where boygeniusreport is being hosted rather than it’s content?
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ah, ok, it seems like this is only for internal AT&T customers. I just borrow my friend’s iPhone and was able to get to the site, so I was a bit confused.
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They are not Blocking it from their customers! They are just not letting their employees go to the iste at work anymore. You are all foolish. Or just funny. They blocked that along with tons of other sites which include yahoo news, ebay, craigslist… c’mon blocking it for their customrs?
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China bought out AT&T
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I work for AT&T to and I was not excited when I tried to go to this site for some information that I wasn’t able to find elsewhere, and saw the ugly blocked sign, I submitted a request to have it unblocked but who knows if they will do it or not. Guess I will just resort to you guys through google reader and my blackberry
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utter idiots dwell in the comments here.
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Let’s post another straightforward story where something obviously won’t affect everyone even though they all read it like it will.
AWESOME.
Oh, and for my two cents in, at my company, I have access to Phone Scoop and RCR News. Phone Scoop is too slow on spitting out the news - which is why it’s ok - and RCR News spends all day babbling about spectrum auctions - OMG!.
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looks like its already unblocked atleast at this center, I’m posting from one in washington
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Freaking halirious. Hahahah
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@Dtest54 I concur…BG himself must be weeping.
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haha I sent this in yesterday. Thanks for the reply back bgr thought that was cool of you.
Btw I’m surfing this site through my iPhone using AT&T corporate wifi in my store so I still have access
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It’s too bad those super-sly “business major” network security types probably blocked “http://*.boygeniusreport.com/*” of course if there was another domain address they could access the site through, it would make that block worthless until they block the new one, and then you get another. Or just use tor.
I worked at a pharma company that started blocking sites. But those geniuses blocked “www.badsite.com” and paid no attention to http://badsite.com, www2.badsite.com, http://123.456.789.012/ or pool-123-456-789-012.noc.myhostingcompany.com/
heck, you can convert long ip addresses to hex and access that directly to get around block filters.
Another way is to not use your companies DNS servers and use Firefox instead of the corporate supplied IE that have all the ActiveX blocks and all.
Heck, with PuTTY and a SSH shell you can create a local web-proxy on your machine and pipe all your web traffic through an encrypted ssh.
Those “I took MIS in community college, I am a elite haxx0r corporate security type and I am on the Dshield.org mailing list - so I am cool” don’t know JACK about network security.
They find a way to block it, I find a way around it. BA != PE. People.
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I’m able to see this through my iPhone even with edge only being on. I guess this only applies to people that work for AT&T and use their computers to surf the web.
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this is exactly why att cant stay in business bunch a bitches
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im on bgr on my computer in the att store on the sales floor and I dont have any problems seeing this page…
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As an ATT employe I do appreciate you sticking up for the little guys out there.
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Not blocked on my at&t issued laptop running on corp intranet @ 12:44pm 8/14/08
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I have not any problems going to http://www.boygeniusreport.com from my blackberry 8310. At least not yet. Maybe AT&T hasn’t caught up, look out it’s the gummy bears.
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I work for the public school system and they filter out everything from personal emails to myspace to facebook is restrict and its public school system. due to the fact that student would goof off. In a way is good but you can always change the ports and ip address in the proxy to by pass the filters.
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To clarify, they have blocked it INTERNALLY, within the company. And yes this is 100% legal. It happens all the time. Get a clue people.
This does not affect anyone using AT&T for their wireless.
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Just noticed this yesterday. They blocked BGR, Gizmodo, and Digg all in one swoop. This is from a retail store in NJ…
Engadget still works though…
And as a side note, they didn’t block wikipedia before… I’ll check once I get back to work…
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Holy crap people, you guys are on a tech blog, yet fail to understand the concept of BGR being blocked internally? I think the pure stupidities of the comments are more important than this story.
AGAIN, this affects ATT EMPLOYEES whom sit in a ATT building wearing an ATT badge and have a pay stub which comes from ATT.
NOT its customers.
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