Facebook Most Blacklisted Site in 2010, OpenDNS Says

by Amar Toor on February 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM

Web security firm OpenDNS has just released its annual list of the most blacklisted sites across homes, businesses and schools. And, perhaps not surprisingly, Facebook came out on top.

OpenDNS' 2010 report on 'Web Content Filtering and Phishing' (PDF) shows that a full 14.2-percent of networks using the company's services have blacklisted Facebook, 9.9-percent blocked access to MySpace, and 8.1-percent flagged YouTube. According to the firm, consumers or companies normally use blacklists when they don't want to filter an entire category of sites, but only want to cherry-pick those within a specific area. That would explain why the top few spots doesn't go to porn sites, because 85-percent of networks already blocked 'pornography' as a general category -- the highest percentage of any genre.

Also included on the list are Twitter, Limewire, and ad services like ad.yieldmanager.com. The composition of this year's list led OpenDNS to speculate that most consumers are worried about leaking their personal information to online advertising networks, and eating up too much bandwidth on video streaming sites. Businesses, on the other hand, seem more concerned with their employees' wasting time; 23-percent of all employers using OpenDNS services blocked Facebook, 10-percentage points higher than second-place MySpace.

And, although network managers chose to block out Facebook more often than any other site, many voluntarily brought it into the fold, as well. The site sits at number two on OpenDNS' list of most "whitelisted" sites -- sites to which users are granted access on an exception basis, even if their larger categories have been blocked. According to the firm, the domains included on this list "represent the most trusted sites in their category." In other words, your boss may trust Facebook, but she probably doesn't trust you to use it wisely at work.

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source: HuffingtonPost, OpenDNS

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ajschrodFeb 1st 2011 10:01PM

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Regardless of the fun people have using it, the world would probably be better off without facebook-- think about it !!

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mendaFeb 2nd 2011 3:23AM

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Well, considering LIMEWIRE was a den for idiots placing child porn files on it and making the names JUST as innocent and innoculous as the REAL names of songs, singers, etc. Yet, the poor kid, mostly young males. We are talking teens to early 20s being targeted. The "teens" busted jsut "happened" to be 18 years of age and up to 24-25. MOST were only 18-22. And, nearly ALL the females of the same ages and geting the SAME content, were magically "overlooked" by the FBI and police. These females who also received these files and "overlooked" on purpose, to make it "appear" as if the males were child predators in the making. Because after all that is a male "dominated" crime. Most ALL of these same males were NEVER in trouble before and only were trying to get music for their Ipods, yet ended up with child porn instead. Most NOT knowing and not knowing how bad it was to even have one file. Even those deleting the files after opeing and seeing what it was, didnt realize it was still burned onto their hard drives. The files, even delted we're.are counted and under FEDERAL law it is a MANDATORY FIVE YEARS for possession of even ONE FILE. And, it State court, a little less "mandatory". But, nearly ALL cases are given POSSESSION AND DISTRIBUTION based on the fact the files are sitting in their "public" folder. thus allwoing another person to take said file, with a regular name, and possibly the kid not even have opened/seen said file to have "knowledge" that its a bad file. Nope, doesnt matter. The way the law is written they are charged for EACH AND EVERY FILE IF they decide to try and go to tria lto prove their innocence. And, being that they charge for each file, and give two counts, which DIST carries a MANDATORY 10 year sometimes its altered based on charge to be a 20 yr Mandatory. So, at the very least in Federal court they are facing MINIMUM THIRTY YEARS for SEEING A PICTURE! But, should they go t otrial the feds/police pull EVERY file and charge that. One person was convicted and sentenced to 132 YEARS in prison!! They bully, and FORCE people into absured plea deals. Which STILL gives OUTRAGEOUS prison time to them. Many of the, no, MOST ALL OF THEM are many years MORE then a MURDERER gets. And, lets not eve ncompare that to someone who actually does sexually assault a child. The excuses for WHY they dont go afte LIMEWIRE for it and better yet the people who are making it and putting on the there is amazing! I actually beleive the police are red flagging certain horrible files and intenionally putting the stuff there to be a "top pick" song, and end up in the persons files. Then its as simple as tracking the IP, doing a search warrant, and down they go. Their whole lives ruined over a photo/video they didnt mean to see. There is hardly ANY way to FIGHT this. The law is waaay too ambiguous, and the way it happens makes it extreeeemely hard ot prove innocence. And, lets face it, NO ONE listens to someone who says they are innocent when it comes ot "hurting kids". But, males are thought to be "adults" at 18 and therfore can be treated like mass murderers. No, wait, WORSE then those people. And, even when they DO get out of prison, they are stuck on extremely tough and long Paroles. And, HAVE to register as sex offenders... for life!! But, hey good news is the music industry sued for their reasons of money lost for "free music" on Limewire. So, the ygot an injuction for the immed stop of Limewire. So now at least that entrapment site is no more and hundreds of lives are still OK. Of course the scum that do this will just move on to others and we STILL have INNOCENT KIDS going to prison. But, who listens to them? No one! Who tried to help them? No one.!! They are automatically covicted in the eyes of public opinion even though these are KIDS themselves. They are being turned into criminals for inadvertantly obgtaining something. Yet, there is no one to stand up for them unles syou have MAJOR moneyajor name, and major backing/power! So SAD and DISGUSTING what our govt is doing in order to make the public "think" they are actually being tough on crime and getting the bad guys off the street. I could go on and point out so much more. But, I hink you get the point.

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