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Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn
Geoffrey.landis writes "The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents fired worker Michael Fiola and initiated procedures to prosecute him for child pornography when they determined that internet temporary files on his laptop computer contained child porn. According to Fiola, 'My boss called me into his office at 9 a.m. The director of the Department of Industrial Accidents, my immediate supervisor, and the personnel director were there. They handed me a letter and said, "You are being fired for a violation of the computer usage policy. You have pornography on your computer. You're fired. Clean out your desk. Let's go."' Fiola said, 'They wouldn't talk to me. They said, "We've been advised by our attorney not to talk to you."' However, prosecutors dropped the case when a state investigation of his computer determined there was insufficient evidence to prove he had downloaded the files. Computer forensic analyst Tami Loehrs, who spent a month dissecting the computer for the defense, explained in a 30-page report that the laptop was running corrupted virus-protection software, and Fiola was hit by spammers and crackers bombarding its memory with images of incest and pre-teen porn not visible to the naked eye. The virus protection and software update functions on the laptop had been disabled, and apparently the laptop was 'crippled' by malware. According to Loehrs, 'When they gave him this laptop, it had belonged to another user, and they changed the user name for him, but forgot to change the SMS user name, so SMS was trying to connect to a user that no longer existed ... It was set up to do all of its security updates via the server, and none of that was happening because he was out in the field.' A malware script on the machine surfed foreign sites at a rate of up to 40 per minute whenever the machine was within range of a wireless site."
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Certainly the AC was trolling, since nowhere in the article was Linux mentioned. But Windows can be perfectly secure if you want it to, which means that your tired claims and bizarre tie-ins with unrelated conspiracy theories are as usual no more than empty "advocacy" that helps no one and just serves to bury more of your accounts in the appropriate karma holes.
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Dude, whatever you do, don't go to work for IT. They already have too many assholes like you.
I really get sick of people whining about their employers. I have never hired a whiner - they're easy to spot in an interview. Thank goodness, because I don't want to waste my time with people who are happier whining than working.
I hope the state has someone double check Tami Loehrs' claims. Loehrs is an expert only because she claims to be one and has used the same argument in several trials, offering little to no proof. She has been lucky on a few occasions because the typical juror is, lets say computer illiterate, and prosecutors know it. Since prosecutors are by definition afraid of losing a trial they tend to cut and run unless someone can convince them downloading child porn isn't everyday virus behavior.
Loehrs is a hack and a one trick pony and has been called on the fact several times. She is making a living off of a few lucky shots where her unchallenged statements have helped kiddy porn perverts walk free. She is a hired gun for the defense and only looks for an out for the defendant. She does not look at the evidence from an unbiased view point so her results are not unbiased.
I hope this magical child porn virus was confirmed by the prosecution's experts otherwise this guys is probably another lucky pervert that avoided jail time because of those "evil viruses" that take over your computer and cover it with porn ("No honey I don't look at porn uhhh it must have been put there by a virus, yeah, that's the ticket!"). The computer would probably be virus free if he hadn't been scouring the shady parts of the internet looking for child porn.
I routinely exceed every skill my parents (or anyone) tries to teach me in a few months. I can deal with human transfer of knowledge really well, ask the right questions, infer most of it myself, bypass things I'm being told that I already figured out (i.e. complete the core point while you're talking), etc. Once my interest is in something I exhaust everyone I know who knows something about it, and then add my own research, and I'm better than the lot of them.
My dad can code but he's not so good at it; he took an operating systems class and I had to explain how operating systems work to him... from knowledge I gleaned toying with the linux kernel on my own time and asking a ton of questions. He's not even any good with a computer.
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I'm not the guy who wrote the post you were responding to. It's possible that he does believe in God. But it's significantly more likely than usual, since he's probably well educated and intelligent, that he doesn't.
In order to convince people to behave morally, it's not sufficient to invoke a myth that many people don't believe in and take it as given that they should care what he thinks. Try reason instead.