This just came in via email … and yes it is genuine as I know the guy who send it

Bizarre, isn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong. Content filtering for office purposes is ok and probably necessary but putting the “weapon category” into the filter at a company who develops weapons is sort of weird .

I work at a military base where we develop all sorts of weapon systems.

A friend told me to check out a web site.

OK, so I just attempted to go to xxx.xxxxxx.com and what do I get?

See below……………..

xxAFB xxxx/xxxx HTTP/HTTPS/FTP PROXY px0

Access Denied (content_filter_denied)

You are explicitly denied access to this website “http://xxx.xxxxxxx.com” per local base policy and -snip-

Your request was denied because of its content categorization: “Weapons”

-snipped legal stuff-

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