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I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what wa
by RyJones 6y ago
I worked for a place where our internet was bad, but not that bad. We were coming up to a release and things were fubar. I asked the network guy to find what was up - a guy that reported to me was torrenting child porn.
- Wistar 6y agoI worked at a place where, one morning, the guy in the next office over got swarmed by company security and the police. He was trafficking in child porn on the company network. He was a super smart, super dumb guy who lost everything over it, his wife, custody of his kids, friends and a very high-paying career. His car sat in the company garage for weeks.
- inetsee 6y agoI worked on a secure project a very long time ago. A very smart guy (he was working on the operating system for a military avionics computer) printed out some child porn photos on a company color printer. (This was long enough ago that good quality color printers were very expensive, not like now when you can buy a color printer for less than $100.) He got walked out. I don't know what other consequences he suffered. Being smart doesn't mean you can't do something really stupid.
- partyboat1586 6y agoSmart != Wise
- fortran77 6y agoSee "The Rise and Fall of Patrick Naughton" https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-naughton/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-patrick-n...
- Wistar 6y agoI remember that well. Didn't know the guy but I knew several who did know him before the bust but, oddly enough, very few after.
- tasty_freeze 6y agoHis wikipedia entry ends with: > He ended up serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year.
- dennisgorelik 6y ago~~~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton#Sex_crime_arrest_and_conviction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton#Sex_crime_arr... He ended up serving no prison time, in exchange for working for the FBI for free for a year. ~~~
- lxe 6y agoThat was so brief... Nowadays articles like this are 10 times as long and detailed.
- bluedino 6y agoI worked somewhere that had that happen. The FBI showed up with Yahoo messenger logs from our IP address, they wanted to take our file servers etc (he didn’t save anything on our network, but was signing into those sites while at work) They ended up having to come back the next day with a new warrant because he was at a branch office but their internet was from a point to point connected to the main office. They took his pc and I provided them with a months worth of squid logs. We had just spent like $4500 on a new CAD workstation for him. He’s still in prison.
- rightbyte 6y agoWhen I read stories like this I always wonder if they are setups. Like, it feels too stupid.
- Wistar 6y agoI knew him well and he was well-liked and professionally well-regarded throughout at least my division of the company. He was a high-energy, tireless guy with great ideas and worked nearly daily with senior-level management, often traveling with them all over the world. I, along with a whole lot of others, were absolutely dumbstruck by his profound fall from grace.
- toxik 6y agoJesus, do you not wonder if maybe he was framed? I guess it’s a bit of a roundabout way to frame someone, and unlikely to work on anyone who keeps an eye on their running processes... but damn.
- nkrisc 6y agoOn the other hand, people with that kind of evil inside of them don't go around letting everyone know. They keep it secret and hide it well. Most of the time. So it's not entirely surprising that when that happens to someone you never would have expected it.
- Reelin 6y ago> and unlikely to work on anyone who keeps an eye on their running processes Rootkits are a thing. It would be perfectly reasonable for a criminal to intentionally use one to hide a process doing illicit things on their own computer from prying eyes.
- rightbyte 6y agoYe I guess seeming like a nice person doesn't prove or disprove anything, but lets not dive to far into your colocated worker's case, but generally. I had a malware once that distributed (legal) porn. Since then I have had that in the back of my head when reading about child porn. I mean, what more effective way to ruin someones life by framing without having to involve yourself physically by planting drugs etc. It doesn't even have to be a specific target that is framed, but a target. I really hope that the police have the technical knowledge to judge the evidence in these cases. Even if a framed person is cleared his reputation might be ruined anyway.
- userbinator 6y agoReading stories like this makes people think that all pedophiles are stupid, but then again, as with any other crime, it's only the stupid ones who get caught...
- lopmotr 6y agoAn estimated 1% of men are pedophiles. It's kind of like finding gays in Saudi Arabia. They don't advertise their presence. I heard from an old lady that there were no gays in the Soviet Union until they got infected by the west when it collapsed.
- falsaberN1 6y agoJesus, is that some sort of proven statistic? Because if it's accurate that's orders of magnitude more than what I expected. No wonder they seem to come out of the woodwork lately, but still, kind of chilling.
- nix23 6y ago>An estimated 1% of men are pedophiles. I really wanna see how they made those estimations. How many percent of Woman's are pedophiles then?