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Every year some poor sap who works for DSHS at the State of Washington is fired for porn on their state supplied computer. It always makes the papers. After 5 or so years, I started doubting that the fired employees actually were stupid enough to put porn on a computer. I mean after so much press, why go there even if addicted to that kind of thing.
Then even without a virus, I realized that it wasn't hard to do some poor fellow in if you wanted to. A payment to some network administrator who planned on or was already out of the USA or someone responsible for automatic operating system updates is all it would take.
VNC, Net Meeting, GotoMyPC all become instruments of wrong doing when porn on a hard drive can get you fired, searched or jailed. Once the computer is attached to a network the user no longer controls it. That also applies to "secure" networks.
How can the mere presence of child porn on a hard drive really be enough justification for a search warrant in this environment. It can not be.
The article really is pointing out this situation which I suspect exists ONLY IN THE USA. The facts of this case - the guilty plea etc obscure what any IT Professional will testify in court to. Computers attached to networks are not under user control. What is on them, by itself, means nothing. There really should be more than that before search warrants or even suspicion. - Posted by: mighetto Posted on: 04/18/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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