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DoD Must Confront Child Porn Issue: Must take steps to prevent access to child porn on PCs
• John FoleyThe 94-page IG report, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act filing by the Boston Globe, provides a seldom-seen look into the who, what, where, when, and how of child porn access by employees and contractors of the U.S. military. In several of the cases involved, it appears that more rigorous IT governance might have identified problems earlier or even prevented them. Keep in mind that there's risk associated with this nasty problem -- government systems may be exposed to malware, and the perpetrators are vulnerable to blackmail and threats.
In one case, an Oracle employee with top secret clearance and under contract to the National Security Agency was identified as a subscriber to the child porn Web sites under investigation by ICE agents. On the same day that a search warrant was issued for that person's home computer, it appears that he traveled to his office and tampered with work computers. A second search warrant resulted in the discovery of child porn on an office computer and, in March 2008, he was indicted on possession of child porn. (It's unclear from the IG report, which is heavily redacted, if the offices involved were those of NSA, Oracle, or another employer.) The suspect fled and is thought to be hiding in Libya.