9 D.C. Workers Fired For Looking at Porn

[john & jean 37]

lol..a question.. several clients of mine, were referred for this..that is, over porn..as they found it on the hard drive??/ according to most of them, they deleted it after a short time from their work computer..but later discovered.is this true?

"deleting" a file does not mean it's gone, it has the first letter of the name wiped out with a *

it can be recovered quite easily as long as it's not been written over.

now if someone was to muddy the waters for them, say deleting the file and recreating one with the same name and deleting that new one again, that would make things a bit more difficult

Of course... there are programs that will efficiently wipe data from the hard drive, thereby making it impossible to recover. But most people don't have these on their system and wouldn't know where to go about looking for them, either. Besides, you'd have to know when to use one of these programs ahead of time and in general, the authorities won't warn you before they seize you and your equipment.

A Solution on How to View Porn While at The Office

One thing that would be smart for dedicated porn surfers to do while at work (and please do note I am not advocating this behavior) would be to install a version of Firefox on a sufficiently large USB Flash Drive (I've seen very affordable 4gb and 8gb models now; there are larger ones, of course), plug the drive into a high-speed USB 2.0 port and run the browser from the Flash Drive. The browser will still record all the data, but it will record it to the Flash Drive instead of your work computer's hard drive. In addition, this would enable you to download pictures and video as well, since it go directly to the Flash Drive and not your work computer's hard drive.

Doing this would also make it a lot easier to take home anything you collect, since you can't very well e-mail those home to yourself using your work e-mail. You could still use personal e-mail while on your Flash Drive, but then you'd have to re-download it, so why bother? You can just carry it home.

This should also bypass any settings you'd normally have imposed on you at work, since you'd be using your own version of Firefox instead of whatever browser your work has chosen for you. Your main limitations would be space (Flash Drives don't hold as much data as modern hard drives do), write speed (Flash Drives are generally slower than modern hard drives as well) and above all, not getting caught. The latter, of course, would be an issue no matter what.

and even that above won't help anyone who has net nazis at work.....

That's true; however, not every workplace has a very secure or strong network, so it might work pretty well. Of course, I'd have to wonder what job someone could have that would allow them enough time to surf for porn on any regular basis. Usually the idea of being at work is... to work.

Unless you "work" at CSC ?

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

Usually the idea of being at work is... to work.

don't tell my boss that

[peejay 327]

Usually the idea of being at work is... to work.

True...but I work on an offshore production facility on the Gulf of Mexico. I go to work and live there for a week at a time. As long as we take care of business...who cares? Do you think these oil companies aren't making hand over fist $$$? Why should they care whether we peek at T & A on our own personal computer over their network or look at dirty movies on the DVD player in the facility TV room? It don't hurt their bottom line. Nobody on our crew is offended...so...so what? Nothing but guys out there anyway passing time 'till we can go home. They are happy that we are happy. We keep the oil & gas rolling north and the $$$ rolling into their pockets. Isn't that what it's all about?

[happilycontent 16]

hahaha

This reminds me of a conversation I overheard the other day at a business.. Men talking about all the porn they have on their computers..

"no man it's full length movies that I DL, maybe that's why my computer runs so slowly"

LMAO..