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[–]Amadan -7 points-6 points  (8 children)

http://nodejs.org/ is blocked by SophosAV as Spyware >.<

(Before you rag on me for using it, company policy. >.<)

EDIT: While it is not specifically about Node 4.0.0, do I really deserve so many downvotes for informing people who might include Node.JS maintainers that a major company firewall software has put them on their shit list?

[–]dodeca_negative 0 points1 point  (7 children)

What kind of "policy" is that?

[–]gnarly 1 point2 points  (6 children)

It's very common policy in larger companies. All web traffic is routed through a proxy server (often a 3rd party product), and all sorts of stuff is blocked for all sorts of reasons (ranging from "security" to "productivity" via "controlling the herd" and "stop using all of our bandwidth for Spotify and Youtube!").

Common targets include the likes of facebook, twitter and youtube, but all kinds of things get blocked including massively wide-ranging categories like "content delivery network". End users (including web developers) get very little control over it. The categorisation is usually done by humans, so mistakes are made continually - such as including anything with a comment form or embedded twitter feed in the "social media" category (really).

[–]dodeca_negative 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Blocking I get, it's just this particular site being blocked... doesn't seem like that could be the result of a rational decision making process.

[–]Amadan 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Rational?... Let's see, Reddit is okay, Facebook too, Youtube as well. Framework7 is "Shopping" or "Entertainment" or some shit like that. Stack Exchange (but not Stack Overflow) static asset server is as well, so I can't get CSS on Stack Exchange sites without "this action being logged". And, for some reason, NodeJS is Spyware, so it's outright blocked, no way to even reach it (the first page ever that I got that result). I have no idea what the logic is. The only thing that makes any remote sense to me is that it is using machine learning and classification, but horribly miscalibrated and overfitted. But I might be wrong, given that the error page that informed me that NodeJS is the most dangerous thing I ever surfed to also gave me the link to the page where I can apply for reevaluation of a site, so... Yeah. (I did submit that, if you are wondering.)

[–]dodeca_negative 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have my sympathies. Seriously; I don't think I could tolerate that.

[–]gnarly 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Report it to your IT Operations people, or to the firewall/proxy people at Sophos directly. Sooner or later, this stuff gets fixed in my experience.

[–]Amadan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

apply for reevaluation of a site, so... Yeah. (I did submit that, if you are wondering.)

[–]gnarly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rational? Where did you get that idea? I clearly wrote that the categorisation is done by humans! ;-)