Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government network

Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by qubax on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:31AM (#18336790)

9000 porn sites? I can understand that if his job involved researching porn. Otherwise, who has time to visit that many websites at their job? Where does he find the time to do actual work with his busy porn-viewing schedule?

And most importantly, why is there no mention of termination of employment? How can someone spend all day at work browsing porn and jeopardize the network with malware/viruses and still be employed?

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Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by jihadjihad on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:46AM (#18336943)

> How can someone spend all day at work browsing porn and jeopardize the network with malware/viruses and still be employed?

After doing some government consulting work, this does not surprise me in the slightest.

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Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by PopePompous on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:52AM (#18337006)

Actually, when I was a Fed worker, I was told that browsing porn sites was one of the very few things that could lead to immediate termination, without the usual Civil Service procedures (which take years to play out).

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Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by lamarpye on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @03:25PM (#18340436)

The operative word here is "could".

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Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by icebraining on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:08AM (#18337217)

The articles (and report) says pages, not sites. It might just be different URLs of a handful of sites.

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Re:Porn-loving US official spreads malware to government net... by ergothus on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:12PM (#18338150)

Purely hypothetical, as I dont know anything about this user, but I imagine the number is greatly increased if a site opened other pages when you visit a link, and if it required clicking through some pages to get what you are being promised.

...but porn sites wouldn't work like that, would they?

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