OTF forum as a Heathrow airport security risk?

[Discordant Resonance]

Intriguing post by ad hoc on Facebook where he states that OTF is one of the few sites blocked by Heathrow wi-fi, as the website isn't deemed secure - can Snake shed any light on the matter?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Intriguing post by ad hoc on Facebook where he states that OTF is one of the few sites blocked by Heathrow wi-fi, as the website isn't deemed secure - can Snake shed any light on the matter?

I did refer ad hoc to his rather forthright post about Russia on the Euro 2020(1) forum.

[Snake Plissken]

We have a valid SSL certificate so I don't know why it would do that.

[ad hoc]

It wasn't necessarily a security risk


"Acceptable Use Policy Violation
Category: Sports
The website you are trying to access either presents a security risk or is not allowed under your organization's acceptable use policy.
If you think you are receiving this message in error, please contact your IT help desk."


I did get the option of, in modern IT parlance "opening a ticket", but I tried that and it was obviously for the LHR admin to contact Boingo which provides the Internet. Not quite sure why a Sports (sic) site should constitute unacceptable use. Gambling?

[ad hoc]

There's somebody else now who says he hasn't been able to access the site for weeks (I don't know who as I'm terrible at connecting real names to OTF names)

[Snake Plissken]

Probably we end up getting blacklisted by default in some places. I assume that we get categorised under "Sport" and the ISP / company proxy automatically blocks all sites in that category.