Alan Peery wrote:
> For example, I worked for a US company that was purchased by IBM. Shortly we had
> employees in the US, UK, Japan, and several other countries accessing the web.
> Depending on where they logged in normally, where they logged in this time, and
> what network configuration their local admin happened to be using, they could
> emerge onto the Internet at five locations--two in the US, two in Europe, and one
> in Japan. There is no way for an external user to know that I (a US citizen) was
> using an IP address internally assigned to the Italian office--part of the Italian
> traffic even emerged onto the Internet in the US...
Yeah, I argued that point as well...they don't care. They want them blocked,
regardless of the (Corporate) Company being a US based company with offices around the
world. And for those outside of the US, using any type of technology to get a US
based IP assigned, they're fine (hence my argument about proxies).
I strongly believe they're being total idiots about it, but hey...they're the ones
signing my cheques, so...
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