Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Loopholes

At Adam's current temp job, the IT department has blocked various web based e-mail sites including yahoomail so he's been able to surf the web while manning the front desk, but unable to check his e-mail. Yesterday, he figured out the international yahoomail portals had not been blocked so he logged in from yahoo's UK site and promptly sent me an e-mail titled "Shhhh" informing me he'd managed to bypass the e-mail blockers. Within a few hours, the IT department was on to him discovering the loophole and quickly blocking all the yahoo international e-mail portals. It was a triumph of the human spirit of sorts, but only for a few hours. Diamonds for Adam for his creativity, begrudging Diamonds for the IT department for being quick on their feet and Coals for e-mail blockers.

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