[SecurityRatty] tag: fiola

What would happen to you?

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:22:44 +0000

How are you protected if something like this happened?
Interesting to think about huh?
Maybe some investigating is needed on your employee computer usage guidelines.

clipped from www.pcworld.com

A Misconfigured Laptop, a Wrecked Life

Fiola: I will never go to work for them again. I would not work for a company that would not protect its employees. I feel they didn’t protect me. The SMS was disabled on that computer.

Q&A: A misconfigured laptop; a wrecked life

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:00:00 +0000

Michael Fiola's laptop set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop. He talks about the case, which prosecutors dropped last week.

A misconfigured laptop, a wrecked life

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:00:00 +0000

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop. Last week, prosecutors dropped their year-old case after a state investigation of his computer determined there was insufficient evidence to prove he had downloaded the files.