Adult Website Use At Work Leads To Hacker Conviction

safesorry notes that several sources are talking about a recent tale of woe about Richard Wolf, a lonely guy looking for love in all the wrong places. Wolf used his work computer to visit the Adult Friend Finder website and upload personal nudes to prospective "friends." Now he's been convicted under a "hacker" law targeted at employees who steal data or access information they shouldn't. "Richard Wolf acknowledged that his behavior was inappropriate when he used his work computer to upload nude photos of himself to an adult web site and view other photos on porn sites, but he didn't think he should be convicted of hacking for doing so."

Comments

wow! just wow!

[FudRucker]

if there ever was a definition of dumbass in the dictionary this guy is it!

Re:Persecution, not prosecution

[westlake]

The important question would be why his employer even phoned the police in the first place. This is one of those bizarre situations where it is obvious that the person was persecuted for a lifestyle choice and not for what he did or didn't do at work

You have to know why the photograph was on your system. You have to know how it was being used.

You can't take the man's word as gospel.

You need answers and you need them now.

The mayor won't be pleased when a secretary files a ten million dollar lawsuit for sexual harassment.

He will be even more unhappy when your man is arrested by the feds for soliciting minors on online -

and he'll be really - royally - pissed off if comes out later that you tucked the photograph away and did nothing.