Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job?

ccnull writes "You're a systems admin. On a routine PC repair, you discover a trove of child porn on an employee's PC. You call the cops. The employee pleads guilty and goes to jail. Then what do you do? You get fired. InformationWeek has an interesting expose on whistleblowers who lost their jobs, they say, because they publicly embarassed the company. The company has another version of the story. No matter what the reality is, at the center of this is a good question: If you discover illegal goodies on a machine, what should you do about it?"

Comments

Shiggity

[Anonymous Coward]

Shwa

Re:Shiggity

[Anonymous Coward]

Group X? I thought I was the only person who knew about them.

Later.

What should I do?

[sbillard]

If you discover illegal goodies on a machine, what should you do about it?"
Or, What would you do?

wait for it...

Use both hands; of course!

*_rimshot_*

'tap-tap' - is this thing on?

First responsibility of a good sysadmin

[Swampfox]

Make good off-site backups and take them to your house. :)

Simple answer to that kiddy pr0n question.

[Anonymous Coward]

Back it up and take the backup disks to your house for 'safekeeping' and 'quick retrieval'. *wink wink*

Re:What do you do? You do the RIGHT thing.

[Bold Marauder]

Three words: In Soviet Russia...
Two words: nine-eleven

Re:Why do people enjoy pornography?

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Your unusual lack of a sense of humor is one good reason why you'll be doing the same as the guy you responded to. Women generally appreciate a sense of humor more than they do an exagerated sense of self-superiority in moral rectitude.

I pity you. I honestly do.

Re:Only an idiot...

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

"Hey, I saw my boss whack Chuck in the basement, "

What your boss and Chuck do to each other in the basement are acts between two consenting adults, and you probably shouldn't comment...

(sorry your choice of words brought out the smart-ass in me ;) )