14.08.2014 - 08:15 [ Techdirt ]

More Federal Employees Caught Using Work Computers To Access Porn, Claim ‚Boredom‘ Made Them Do It

Only the truly unemployed would be likely to go searching for porn as often as one SEC employee did, when he ran into the agency‘s anti-porn firewall 1,800 times during a two-week period, without ever once considering this was how the system was designed, rather than just an indication that he wasn‘t trying hard enough. Multiple employees at the agency were reprimanded for watching porn on their work computers for „98% of the workday.“

A state official in Oregon infected the government‘s computer system with a nasty trojan hitchhiker picked up while surfing for porn. This resulted in a data leak, but the employee was reprimanded solely for using a work computer inappropriately.