Sex at the SEC.

Ruu_Old

Link here.

Senior SEC staffers spent hours at work looking at porn websites.

Inquiries of 33 employees find one who was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting certain sites. He eventually found a way around the agency’s filter.

April 23, 2010


Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.

The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 inquiries of employees looking at explicit images in the last five years, according to a memo first reported Thursday evening by ABC News. It reports some shocking findings:

• A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office.

• An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "sex" or "pornography." Yet, he still managed to amass a collection of "very graphic" material on his hard drive by using Google Images to bypass the SEC's internal filter.

Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of as much as $222,418.

Rep. Darrell Issa of Vista, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said it was "disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse."

Do people not realise that IT departments can view everything you have viewed and/or attempted access to sites that been blocked? These are senior level staff. More tax payer dollars down the loo.

[AH]Pics or GTFO, Yore Ma, I for one welcome our porn leaders, etc.[/AH]

jd007

I thought this was going to be about the State Examinations Commission!

But 16000 times a month? Wtf?!

Abi

Ruu wrote: »

Do people not realise that IT departments can view everything you have viewed and/or attempted access to sites that been blocked? These are senior level staff. More tax payer dollars down the loo.

Actually, I'm sure they do know. It's actually arrogance at play here, thinking that nobody would ever have the balls say anything about it. Stuff for them tbh.

TPD

jd007 wrote: »

I thought this was going to be about the State Examinations Commission!

But 16000 times a month? Wtf?!

Working an 8-hour day, that's just over once per minute. If my maths are correct, which they probably aren't.

Ruu

Ruu wrote: »

An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "sex" or "pornography.
[AH]Pics or GTFO, Yore Ma, I for one welcome our porn leaders, etc.[/AH]

TBH I've been blocked from reading articles on the Indo or the irish times a few times, classified as "erotic/adult content" by the filter when they were nothing of the sort

Latchy

Ruu wrote: »

Do people not realise that IT departments can view everything you have viewed and/or attempted access to sites that been blocked? These are senior level staff. More tax payer dollars down the loo.

J Edgar Hoover ( who had a file on everybody at the top including himself ) would have loved this :pac:

jd007

TPD wrote: »

Working an 8-hour day, that's just over once per minute. If my maths are correct, which they probably aren't.

Its about 530 times a day! I don't care if they're working for 20 hours that's still too much! :pac:

biko

using Google Images to bypass the SEC's internal filter.

Can't wait to try this at work Monday.

AckwelFoley

jd007 wrote: »

Its about 530 times a day! I don't care if they're working for 20 hours that's still too much! :pac:

..thats alot of fapping.

Aidric

An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "sex" or "pornography."

Haha, probably married.

starbelgrade

What a bunch of w*nkers.

Pace2008

Abitar wrote: »

Actually, I'm sure they do know. It's actually arrogance at play here, thinking that nobody would ever have the balls say anything about it. Stuff for them tbh.

I don't know, I've noticed that a good deal of higher-level management in my work aren't very computer literate.

Dravokivich

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/22/hp_porn_row/

funny story... the bloke involved within BOI setting their IT contract with HP getting stung for breach of it security policy... BOI wanted to charge HP overt the situation...