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date: 2023-01-07
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title: The Yurt
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One day,
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back in the late 1990s,
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I discovered that the content filter appliance at work
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had blocked woozle.org
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for hosting porn.
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Because I worked in the group that ran that filter,
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I looked into what triggered this block.
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I was pretty sure I didn't have any porn.
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The offending image was called `yurt.png`.
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It was a cartoon drawing of a yurt.
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I told the filter it was a "false positive":
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it wasn't actually porn.
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That got the entire site unblocked.
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I don't know why I put that image on my web server,
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but the yurt has stayed on woozle.org ever since.
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