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Blocked by IT #security #theatre

Today I learned that on my employers network my personal domain asjo.org is blocked by Microsoft Defender Smartscreen.

asjo.org contains my public collection of photographs, an outdated list of my music collection, and a couple of links.

On illuminant.asjo.org I have my 1 person ActivityPub server on the fediverse.

I have a hard time imagining that any of those are dangerous enough to warrant a blocking by my "organization".

It does seem that some people, especially in Asia, use asjo.org as the From address when sending spam, perhaps that's the trigger.

At some point I also had some sort of weird DNS DoS attack against my nameservers serving asjo.org, so I had to move the domain to a hosting provider who is better at handling that sort of thing than I was. Maybe that's more likely to be the trigger?

Puzzling nonetheless.

But great for my bad boy reputation at work, I'm the one with the blocked domain!