> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > > Speaking of screensavers and autolocking. > > We had an incident where the FBI (I even got called by an agent from the KC > field office...) identified we had a computer on campus that was distributing > child pornography. > > It was traced to a professor's computer. Which was surprising, because he > was > such a respected person. > > They then found out that it was actually one of the night janitors that was > doing it. Because the professor didn't lock his computer when he wasn't > there.....
What happened? A lot of people don't care about security. They say "I don't have anything on there I care about." and then I say, "Yeah, but if somebody breaks in and uses your computer to distribute illegal stuff, then the FBI seizes your equipment as evidence and you don't get it back." But I've never known of that happening to anyone first hand. Am I just perpetuating a myth? So ... What did they do? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
