The theme today......
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techrecoverySInce the theme seems to be "scary pr0n found on lusers computers", may I ofter this tidbit from my days working at a Medical School in the Middle East.......
IT in the Middle East is an interesting experience. The pay is good, the rest of it can blow dead penguins. Thankfully, high speed connections are very common for home use where I was at, just needed Secure Tunnel to SSH under the censorship.
Now the school was 85% Macintosh OS X, 10% other Unix, and 5% Windows. Most people didn't have a problem with this. However, we would get the occasional student or faculty member who would throw a hissy fit.
Like one new faculty memember. M.D., Ph.D., very smart, and thought his two doctorates meant he ALSO knew IT as well. And threw a fit when he found out we were Mac / Unix based. Went on constant tirades about how we were using "obsolete crap" and we should be using "modern Windows-based servers and clients." Bitched loudly enough that he got one of our few PC's to shut him up. (This was thanks to an temp CIO who routinely bent over for the staff than back up the IT department or spend money on anything, which meant our jobs were harder than they needed to be and morale sucked)
Well, we get a call to go fix his machine. And find that:
1) He disabled the anti-virus software because it "slowed down his machine"
2) Same for the anti-spyware software.
3) He had installed two extra hard drives.....
4) .....which were filled with pirated movies, music, games, and.....
5) .....porn. Lots and lots and lots of porn. Huge amounts of porn. Huge amounts of porn that were not only a big no-no in the school's IT policy, but were ALSO a big no-no in an Islamic country.
The kicker to all this??
He taught medical ethics........
IT in the Middle East is an interesting experience. The pay is good, the rest of it can blow dead penguins. Thankfully, high speed connections are very common for home use where I was at, just needed Secure Tunnel to SSH under the censorship.
Now the school was 85% Macintosh OS X, 10% other Unix, and 5% Windows. Most people didn't have a problem with this. However, we would get the occasional student or faculty member who would throw a hissy fit.
Like one new faculty memember. M.D., Ph.D., very smart, and thought his two doctorates meant he ALSO knew IT as well. And threw a fit when he found out we were Mac / Unix based. Went on constant tirades about how we were using "obsolete crap" and we should be using "modern Windows-based servers and clients." Bitched loudly enough that he got one of our few PC's to shut him up. (This was thanks to an temp CIO who routinely bent over for the staff than back up the IT department or spend money on anything, which meant our jobs were harder than they needed to be and morale sucked)
Well, we get a call to go fix his machine. And find that:
1) He disabled the anti-virus software because it "slowed down his machine"
2) Same for the anti-spyware software.
3) He had installed two extra hard drives.....
4) .....which were filled with pirated movies, music, games, and.....
5) .....porn. Lots and lots and lots of porn. Huge amounts of porn. Huge amounts of porn that were not only a big no-no in the school's IT policy, but were ALSO a big no-no in an Islamic country.
The kicker to all this??
He taught medical ethics........
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Date: 2007-04-27 04:30 pm (UTC)i forwarded to a coworker of mine one of the posts from yesterday about pr0n and as that story had "classic stuff" in reference to said pr0n. he had one of the heads of finance here bring his home computer in for some issues he was having and wound up finding that the guy's sons had a ton of pr0n on it that brought with it some interesting internet bugs. i may pass this tidbit onto said coworker as he'd appreciate it due to his past experiences. *knocks on wood* thankfully i haven't run into this yet... though i've probably just jinxed myself.
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Date: 2007-04-27 05:09 pm (UTC)