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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."
Why don't you try writing your submissions intelligently and professionally?
That's a nice HUGE FREAKIN' BLOCK OF TEXT you've got there, buddy. Maybe you'd like some PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE to wash it down.
Pesky foreigners. Child porn peddlers, the lot of 'em.
"We live in a global world" - Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Hey, this trick worked on my mother when she busted me with (regular) porn on the family computer back in the day. I just showed her some flashy sensationalist article from the newspaper about 'malware' and 'popups' and told her the internet must have done it. Obviously it was that evil internet that had filled her computer with pornography, and not her pure-minded, cherub-like son. Curse that evil internet.
I wonder if she ever noticed that 'the internet' preferred brunettes?
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
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You mean your friend's experience, right?
Let me guess: Your mom is a brunette...
Any sufficiently well-organized community is indistinguishable from Government.
She is. I know this because I also prefer brunettes.
Anytime. It was so satisfying, I'd leave again if I weren't already gone. Maybe I'll fly up there just to leave again.
Maybe they'll change their name to The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Waiting To Happen.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Won't work when you're caught with the little guy protruding from your opened zipper.
You mean like this:
Staff Member: Boss, sorry I had an accident.
Boss: Really? What happened?
Staff Member: Well, I was playing around with a large toroid and I accidentally dropped the laptop into the center of the flux field at the same time as my hand slipped on the high current switch.
Boss: Never mind, that could have happened to anybody.
I hate printers.
I have a linux machine, and it is always full of porn. I have to delete some of the files from time to time to emerge software.
:(
How do you keep it clean? I have this malware, qbittorrent, it downloads all kind of god-awful sex videos all the time
Help me!
"We've been advised by our attorney not to talk to you."
When lawyers seems a safer medium for understanding between people than regular speech, there has to be a problem somewhere.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
That will probably be too flimsy to sue, but you'll get a nice receipt for your deposition which you can trot out if ever any prospective employer ask why you were fired.
Turnaround is fair-play.
Because you like to park in handicapped spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces
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