I don’t know how you spend your weekends, but I seem to need to use the downtime to clean up my email folders. While going through the many security email newsletters I subscribe to, an ad for some sort of blocking device caught my eye with a fairly bold statement:

See how new technology can block Facebook and MySpace once and for all!

There is something vaguely “English as a second language” about the ad, but no matter. What got my attention about this claim was the notion that this message might actually appeal to information security professionals with money who don’t reside in the Peoples Republic of China. Is this really a compelling product feature in 2008 or did I stumble upon an industry wannabe who is going to fail miserably? (more…)