Smut
Probably about time British society got to grips with the fact a good proportion of adults enjoy watching other adults getting naked. If everybody is an adult and consenting where's the problem?
Jeremy Colman, Auditor General for Wales has resigned from his £170,000 a year post after porn material was allegedly found on his laptop. In fact, the post is in the gift of the Queen, so his resignation has been forwarded on to her. The National Assembly is now looking for an interim successor. His laptop was seized, The …
For liability reasons (i.e. so people walking past his desk don't "get offended" and sue) there will likely be a workplace ban on accessing anything other than "work related" websites. Yes, it's a shitty world to live in when you have to do that in a workplace, but that's today's Pc and litigious society.
The above being the case -- it would be hypocritical in the extreme for "the big boss" to ignore all the rules that the workers are subjected to. If breaking said rule is classed as gross misconduct (as I believe it is in many organisations) then the result would be a sacking.
Assuming he wasn't "set up" then he was just a stupid man who should know better then to use work equipment for purposes which constitute gross misconduct.
An important question is:Was he accessing porn at work or at his home?
If at home, I couldn't care less. He could have wanked himself to death, with my blessings.
Another question: How much p0rn was there? a few photos or the results of hundreds of hours of surfing for porn? If the later, all that huge archive of data should be immediately made public and given as compensation to the tax payers :D.
But given the speed at which this fella resigned, I'd guess he had a lot of illegal "Extreme porn", i.e. photographs of people drawing comics in which older actors with juvenile looks act as models for extreme porn using matchstick men. Or something :).
Paris, cause having the words "Paris" and "P0rn" in the same webpage will raise the position of ElReg in Google Search, increasing their profits and allowing a pay rise for The Moderatrix ;)
It has been a firing offence for quite some time. HM Govt writes "acceptable use" into your contract via a signed agreement. That's what got him fired. That said, pr0n is filtered out quite effectively by govt systems, and even legitimate stuff (e.g. adverts) gets you in trouble. Even if he took it home and used his own connection it's still misuse of taxpayers poroperty. I wonder how he got around the filtering s/ware?