Lind's Blinders...

Due to my current contract, I am not allowed to embrace the technical debate that would explain how William Lind apparently doesn't know anything about the Information Technology business, much less Cyber Security for the Department of Defense for the United States of America. He can chase black helicopters and conspiracy theories all day, but I'd bet at least 5 shots of Canadian Whiskey (I'm a Crown Royal fan until summer gets here) that the problem that triggered his rant doesn't originate in the DoD or any government entity, rather the private sector.

But I will say this. There are several legitimate reasons why websites, blogs, and other forms of social media sites on the web are blocked. If your website or blog is blocked, please understand you can do something about it besides whine.

Use Feedburner, or some other form of syndication software to distribute your content, including by email. Organizations including the military may block Blogger but typically they do not block syndication service sites because from an IT perspective, syndication services like Feedburner is a better way to manage bandwidth for larger enterprises. If an organization is blocking syndication sites too, then your organization has a very strict IT policy, BUT if your favorite websites are distributing content by email, problem solved.

For all you Pentagon folks, I have no idea what man made act of God has allowed this blog to survive the kill lists. All I know is that I owe someone, somewhere a drink. However, if it ever does get blocked, you know how to get around that problem. Also, the reason why you are restricted to so many places you believe you should have access to is because technology has not evolved as far as we would all like. The DoD, just like every other large enterprise, can only afford a single backbone for most internet access, and because private information tends to run on that same backbone, until the services can come up with the money, equipment, and manpower to deploy multiple backbones and separate internal and external access, you will be in the same boat as the vast majority of major companies in the United States...

and live with some form of website filtering restrictions.