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?"

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Re:How about go through proper channels?

[BitterOak]

so you condone the explotation of children?

Since when is choosing not to rat someone out to the cops the same as condoning their behavior?

Also, I don't equate looking at pictures of a crime with committing a crime. Looking at pictures of children being exploited is sick, but I'm not comfortable with the government telling me what kind of pictures I'm allowed to look at. (Not that I'm into kiddie porn myself. Most of it is heartbreaking to look at.)

I think that child abuse is serious enough that it is important we have some perspective on the issue, and use our resources to go after real crimes.