What is going through the mind of someone who puts probably the most illegal possible digital material on their fucking work computer at their high tech government job?
Shit, thanks for reminding me.
If you put it at home, I guess your wife and kids might find it.
Hm, good point. Talk about a no-win scenario. Maybe he was married to a NASA computer expert hacker wife.
Years ago I worked some menial tech job at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and on one occasion…some faculty member was leaving and wanted me to come back-up all his stuff to disk before he left. So I’m sitting there at his computer backing up the files he’s telling me he needs, and he’s packing up stuff behind me…when all these softcore .JPGs start popping up. I’m thinking: You have a PhD, are you really this stupid? Dude looks at me and stammers for a bit and then explains that he has No Idea How Those Got On There. I say “Whatever.” and keep on going. After all, I like boobs too. I’d expect a guy at NASA to be smarter than this as well…perhaps he was emboldened by the current administration and figured he could just delete his harddrive or something.
“Honey, why do you have 3,000 .jpg’s in a password-encrypted folder labeled ‘tax stuff’?”
This is why my wife KNOWS about my pr0n collection, and why mom and dad’s computer is not the computer the kids will be using.
I was preparing a computer for a harddrive upgrade today, and asked the
owner of the company if there was anything special outside their invoices
and mail they wanted to keep.
“That folder - it’s got our porn”, he said, pointing at My Documents.
It’s a catering company. I guess the employees are pretty relaxed.
How do you think they make the sauces?
Ok, that was probably too far.
Dude, they’ll get to it. Were you not ever a teenage boy?
http://www.truecrypt.org/ people. It’s free, easy and you never need worry about anyone stumbling on your “important personal documents”.
I ran into something similar during a PC migration for someone fairly high up in the fortune-500 company I was working for at the time. I brought it to the attention of my boss, who took it to her boss, and I was eventually just told to delete the offending material, since they felt the negative PR of such a thing getting public was too risky to be worth doing the right thing.
Lawsuit!
Happens everywhere. NASA isn’t somehow exempt from stupidity. The Ethics Office at JPL told the employees several times of people fired for kiddie porn; once they discovered that a contract employee had been charging JPL for overtime. He actually was using the ‘overtime’ to download kiddie porn on his government leased computer. I also recall some idiot who used government owned CD burners at JPL to burn porn CD and sell it. People just don’t think.
So, um, er, how many files can truecrypt.org reasonably handle on an encrypted virtual disk?
Because, er, um, I might have been surfing Usenet for the better part of ten years, fairly voraciously. Let’s just say skimming the best was a couple-times-a-week hobby for waaaay too long (up until about four years ago). These days I no longer have the time, and there are better pay sites anyway for my particular interests when I do get the hankering. But I still want to hang onto the old stuff. For, y’know, nostalgia value.
If an encryption solution can’t handle six-digit numbers of files (and hundred-gigabyte total storage volumes), it’s not going to scale to my current needs. I’m currently thinking offline USB hard drive in a safe is probably the best long-term way to go to avoid the Teenage Hacker Kid Problem.
(This is what happens when you personally create the two Usenet porn groups you most want to see, and they become raging successes…)
I…am at once curious and also slightly horrified …
Quoted for…
for…
for great justice?
That’s brilliant.
I’m so not kidding. Let’s just say their initials are a.b.p.e.b and a.b.p.e.f.l, and if there are multiple groups with those initials, I don’t care and take no responsibility for wrong guesses.
Bondage, latex fetish. Wow, you’re like a founding member of the usenet perv club.
What are you worried about? My initial guess was barnyard/farm life, but either way, I don’t see the problem. When was the last time somebody got arrested for latex pictures?