What's the Deal at Ames?
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | 03:25 PM
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | 03:25 PM
The San Francisco Chronicle posted a story late yesterday about a contract employee at the NASA Ames Research Center pleading guilty to storing child pornography on his government computer. The odd thing about this story, as the paper points out, is that it is the third time in a little more than two years that an Ames employee has been caught with child pornography on a government computer. The paper makes it a point to say that the latest infraction is "at least" the third time.
Comments
Were they his? Navy computers are open to third parties via the NMCI. A third party might put them into computers.
Wise Old Owl | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | 11:04 AMContract employees are known for quoting the saying "What happens on the road, stays on the road"....I learned that at a tender age of 40. Good thing I was a big girl and knew what I was (or wasn't) going to do.
So with that kind of work ethic under some of their belts, how is having/accessing/storing/using/etc child pornography a suprise?
Contract employees using a government computer??? Who'd a-thunk? Happens on a normal daily basis. It takes a few steps to be able to have access to a government computer, but it is done all the time. Hope this doesn't sound like it is accusatory of the government, by no means. This is strictly stating that it is a human condition, controllable or not.
Until things are done, rather put into place to control the information post-ability and accessability on the WWW, then this kind of thing will only continue. That, along with many other habits that humans indulge in on a mental basis daily, be they at work or home, where ever. It is a sorry state of human affairs, to say the least.
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