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Wish I would have checked the domain before clicking on it at work. While the content was interesting, content doesn't transfer well to access logs.

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You need a new job. If you think you can get in trouble by that, you probably are working on the wrong place.

If they actually get in trouble, sure that would be an issue. But I'm pretty sure if I ran a company and it was brought to my attention that there was some traffic to *.xxx domains, I'd at least want to know why.

Worked at a bank, had content filtering. All branches had 'net access through HQ. I worked at HQ in IT. Out at a reasonably remote branch to upgrade software, walk into loan manager's office, he announces "if you see Playboy in the access logs, it wasn't me."

We didn't get notifications about that stuff. Maybe the VP of IT did, but I think it was just statistics. But we just had to check the logs when we got back to HQ. Of course he tried accessing Playboy.

I highly doubt anything would come of it. If it did, it would be pretty easy to explain. Nonetheless, having .xxx traffic originating from you on a work computer is not a situation i'd care to have to explain.

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