Swedish Airport Agency Fires 8 for Watching Porn at Work
Ugh. Seriously, people, stop looking at porn on your work computer. It's unprofessional, dangerous for the company network, and quite stupid if you value the idea of being employed. Yet, despite repeated scandals and warnings, folks just keep loading up their work PCs with Internet filth.
The latest shocker comes out of Sweden, where eight employees of the national airport agency LFV lost their jobs for browsing porn sites on the job. During an investigation into slow network performance, LFV located and identified the eight porn-viewers, who were strewn across different LFV locations and seem to have been unaware of one another. Seven of the employees were fired, while one resigned after being turned into the authorities on suspicion of viewing child pornography.
An LFV spokesperson told The Local, an English-language Swedish news site, that the employees used somewhere between 25- and 75-percent of their time at work to browse or download content from pornographic Web sites. FLV has said it's going to start enforcing stricter rules governing browsing behavior, but we're pretty confident the issue isn't lax regulations. It's basic human stupidity. [From: The Local]
Are These Games Too Sexy?
While recent game titles have attracted media attention for nudity and sexual situations, risque role-playing games have existed since PC gaming first began. Early games, such as 'Sex Games' for the Commodore 64, demanded specific commands, such as "remove pants," and required specific sequential actions to achieve one's nefarious goals. Currently, a plethora of games with bawdy scenes have invaded, or graced, the gaming world and vary in degrees of lewdness. Here are a few significant titles with prevalent or graphic bawdiness:
'God of War I & II:'
Press the right buttons, and gently twirl the thumbstick, to see the climax of mini-games in both God of War I and II for PS2 and PSP
'Grand Theft Auto III (consoles)'
The infamous "don't come a knockin'" prostitute scenes created a stir when GTA 3 was originally released for PS2.
'Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude; Box Office or Bust' (for consoles):
These most recent incarnations continue to follow the exploits of love lorn Larry in versions for both PC and next gen consoles
'Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals' (for PC)
Released in 1989 for PCs, this third installment of the groundbreaking franchise of risque role playing preceded GTA 4 by 20 years when the title character shows the full Larry in an infamous shower scene
'Mass Effect:'
The backlash from FoxNews greatly exaggerated the tame innuendo and implied relations between the two sapphic lovers in Xbox's Mass Effect.
'Playboy: The Mansion' (consoles):
Disappointingly demure, perhaps the highlight of this sojourn to the mansion is playing photographer in this release for PC, PS2 and Xbox
'Rapelay:'
Amazon removed listings for this disturbing, yet readily available in Japan, DVD-ROM in which the main character stalks and, to put it mildly, torments young girls.
'The Sims;' nude patch:
Denisons of young gamers were disappointed when learning that unblurred nudity in this game for PCs, consoles, and handhelds required downloading a censor patch
'Soul Calibur' (consoles):
The character Taki from the Soul Calibur franchise continues to titillate thousands of pubescent gamers in versions for every console.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Wright, Benj said 11:45AM on 5-07-2009
Not only is porn dangerous from a computer security perspective, it is dangerous from a legal perspective. Legally speaking, employers have heaps of incentive to block pornography. http://computersafety.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/internet-pornography-in-the-workplace/ --Benj
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