In another thread came out the idea of posting "horror stories", i.e. something connected to digital forensics in actual cases which is at least very controversial where not plainly wrong.
Of course if relating a personal experience and if - for any reason - actual details/names are better not made public, feel free to change names/locations in order to make the story not "traceable", but the idea is "actual experience", not "fantasy work".
Here is a sample of an actually debatable (old) case
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jaclaz
If anyone should have been charged in that debacle, it should have been the IT administrator due to 3 reasons
-Failed to prevent installation of unauthorized programs
-Failed to use a firewall to prevent access to known porn sites
-Failed to properly maintain antivirus/antimalware programs
And let's not even look at the fact that he commited perjury. And the substitute teacher wasn't even the person who downloaded the malicious software. It was a big CYA fest, throwing the sub under the bus.
If anyone should have been charged in that debacle, it should have been the IT administrator due to 3 reasons
I see it a bit differently.
MOST of the people involved should have been flogged publically 😯 , the "technical" ones for having failed to comply with basic technical "standards" and for having put together such a mess of incorrect statements.
The Prosecuton AND Judge for having allowed such "technicians" to testify.
Defense for having completely failed to debunk the "expert witness" reports and testimony.
BUT also the teacher should have been evil for having failed to comply with "common sense".
Now, no matter if you know nothing (or very little) of PC's or if you are a cross between Peter Norton and Linus Torvalds, what would you do in this situation
You are in a school class, you have a laptop on your desk and there are several children in the class (no matter if they can see the screen or not).
Suddenly porn pop-ups start to show on the screen.
What would you do?
§@ç#ing CLOSE THE LAPTOP LID! ! IMMEDIATELY!
(if a desktop §@ç#ing unplug it from mains)
For no apparent reason
jaclaz
Let me re-emphasize the first part IF anyone should have been charged….
I don't think anyone should have been charged. But as ludicrous as having someone charged for that incident, it was a million times more ludicrous to charge the one person involved in the incident who could do nothing to prevent that incident from having occurred. This was the substitute teacher who was merely using a computer of the actual teacher who had infected the computer, on the network that the IT administrator was negligent to prevent the computer's infection, in the school system which had no firewall against this type of abuse.
I've been in IT user support, and I say with 100% certainty that this substitute teacher's ability to deal with this type of computer malady is about average.
I've been in IT user support, and I say with 100% certainty that this substitute teacher's ability to deal with this type of computer malady is about average.
Yes, but still far from being "common sense" (a very UNcommon quality, as said).
But of course missing common sense doesn't constitute a criminal offence.
Here are more details on what actually happened, in the words of Mrs. Amero
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jaclaz
How about the prosecutor that went after this? In the US the prosecutor position is often a step closer to a higher political office. A high profile case can be correlated to new and more prominent political post within next election season…
I just heard that line that your poster refers to (sans cursing) jaclaz. It is my new comeback to many disappointments.