MySpace, Facebook users at Vatican hit firewalls

Jun-16-2009
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Vatican employees are now banned from accessing some social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace while at work.

People trying to poke a friend or post a status update on their Facebook page from a computer connected to the Vatican network will instead hit a powerful firewall that says the requested page cannot be viewed because it does not fulfill the network's "access protection criteria."

The Vatican spokesman said the move is a "normal and prudent" measure that reflects similar strategies taken by other companies around the world that have blocked employee usage of social networking sites on office networks. the rest