Comment Re:The real problem (Score 1) 635
This was a laptop, right? Not a computer sitting in his office. There is no reason to suppose that any of the alleged porn-surfing was done on company time.
How is it misuse then? Looking at sexy pictures doesn't harm the computer or the company at all. Do they also fire people for using their company laptop, at home and on their own time, for browsing Slashdot or eBay?
This is a problem we had in the company I work at.
Looking into it, we actually learnt that Microsoft ISA does its logging in UTC and we concluded that although it was possible the staff involved were browsing porn, it was done on personal time. Although it was a company laptop, the porn was browsed on personal time and so we said "Hey - look, can you not do this on company equipment?"
What is hard is proving intent.
Although you can prove that a website was browsed at a particular time (using proxy logs), you cannot easily prove intent. What's the difference between a person browsing porn and someone going to a dodgy (cracks/warez/etc) site and accidentally getting porn in the process? You can generally get an idea based on the number of hits a site gets, along with how long they spend on the site (or how many links they follow), but once more - you can not easily prove intent.
