No filtering doesn't mean no logging. Just because there's no block on a given site doesn't mean that you can't be fired for accessing it every day.
Anyone can make a typo, accidentally hit a porn site, and then hit 20 more through pop-ups and pop-unders. But if you're hitting gambling and porn sites every day, it's gonna set off red flags.
Very true - and since every company has someone with nothing to do all day except pour over firewall logs, and run a dns lookup against every outgoing IP request to see what sites every employee is going to it should be a snap.
It's not going to set off any red flags if someone isn't watching. That's why companies place filtering software on their firewalls - to block and track who is requesting. Now I suppose you could run in tracking and alerting mode only, but he ordered the filters removed.
And yes, anyone can make a typo or follow a bad link - it happens to everyone and I'm not trying to say that all the employees are going to go nuts. I work for a company that doesn't have any filters in place and you would not believe the amount of time that has to go into re-imaging systems because of the amount of crap on them.
And lastly, I just voiced an opinion - I wasn't trying to pick a fight with anybody.