You would expect Children’s Hospital in San Diego to be very, very nervous about anything to do with porn. After all, this is the place where apparently a nurse and a tech roamed free taking pornographic pictures of children, molesting them, and spreading the pictures on kiddie porn sites.
Wayne Albert Bleyle, 54, who was arrested March 8, has pleaded not guilty to molesting five patients. He also pleaded not guilty to distributing pornographic pictures of patients on the Internet. Christopher Alan Irvin, 32, a nurse who was arrested April 15, has pleaded not guilty to charges of molesting a 4-year-old girl and distributing child pornography.
And speaking from experience I know about second-hand, people do very, very foolish things on their work computers. But it seems that the latest news from San Diego Children’s may be a little over the top. So far three doctors have been suspended because one of them, while logged on to the hospital’s system from home, visited a porn site
Hanscom said using the access code to look at pornography would violate hospital policy whether the images were of adults or children. The access appears to have been on a home computer. Improper use of the code was discovered as a result of more vigorous auditing adopted after the arrests of the two hospital employees.
Now the key issue we don’t know is what type of porn site—and there is a huge legal as well as ethical difference between the secret chat-rooms where paedophiles trade pictures, and the Playboy online type sites. And of course whoever was logged into the hospital’s Internet access was dumb, dumb, dumb not to log out and go off to their own local ISP before looking for smut online. But let’s get real. A huge proportion of Americans look at porn online, and doctors are no different.
Assuming that this is a case of legal behavior at home, that was inappropriately sourced through the wrong ISP, you have to think that handing this over to the “Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which includes local and federal agencies” and suspending three physicians and putting it in the newspaper, may be an over-reaction.
Did the hospital management not think to first have a quiet word with the physicians concerned to find out a) which one of the three was the guilty party and then b) have their IT staff and lawyers investigate what they saw, and discover whether their behavior was illegal or just stupid. And if was only the latter, then take some administrative action against them before ruining careers and getting law enforcement involved. Which if it was the former would clearly happen anyway.
Meanwhile, a reminder to all of you out there, make sure that you keep a private Internet connection, email server, et al away from your employer.
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The matter is in that people need to face the fact that the World finds young people attractive. Refer to Mr. Cullen’s revolutionary report on the issue. Mr Cullen is the World authority on that. Mr. Cullen’s report is found under the Suns Winnipeg thread under the Editorial Beware of Ignatieffs Common Touch. (Click the 2nd or third post) If you want to leave a comment click the Battle for free speech post and put one there. Read only the first 41 pages
“Kiddie porn hysteria going too far”??!!!Exactly WHAT determines “too far” hmm? I guess it all depends on which end of the perverted P O S’s dick your on now doesn’t it?!! Texas has passed a new law making child rapists eligible for the DEATH PENALTY!! How about that for a topic?? LoL!”
no one here has anything against capturing child pornographers, but these doctors could have been innocent.
Tell me, if your internet browser suddenly jumped to a child porn site for apparently no reason, and you were ‘caught’ by FBI and thrown in jail, would that be fair?
When an experienced computer user (not a hacker) gains access to your network, he can make your computer do anything including visit child porn sites or even attacking even more computer networks.
This type of computer which is no longer in control of the owner is called a ‘zombie’ and obeys every command of the ECU. The problem is that the authorities are not up to date on zombies, completely ignore them and throw the innocent owner into jail.
Would you like to go to jail? I know a few hackers which would love to mess with your network.
“Kiddie porn hysteria going too far”??!!!Exactly WHAT determines “too far” hmm? I guess it all depends on which end of the perverted P O S’s dick your on now doesn’t it?!! Texas has passed a new law making child rapists eligible for the DEATH PENALTY!! How about that for a topic?? LoL!”
no one here has anything against capturing child pornographers, but these doctors could have been innocent.
Tell me, if your internet browser suddenly jumped to a child porn site for apparently no reason, and you were ‘caught’ by FBI and thrown in jail, would that be fair?
When an experienced computer user (not a hacker) gains access to your network, he can make your computer do anything including visit child porn sites or even attacking even more computer networks.
This type of computer which is no longer in control of the owner is called a ‘zombie’ and obeys every command of the ECU. The problem is that the authorities are not up to date on zombies, completely ignore them and throw the innocent owner into jail.
Would you like to go to jail? I know a few hackers which would love to mess with your network.
“Kiddie porn hysteria going too far”??!!!Exactly WHAT determines “too far” hmm? I guess it all depends on which end of the perverted P O S’s dick your on now doesn’t it?!! Texas has passed a new law making child rapists eligible for the DEATH PENALTY!! How about that for a topic?? LoL!
I would like to send you some links to publications about my
criminal case. I worked for Mitsubishi Electric Automation in Vernon Hills, IL, USA.
My case are getting public attention now as an example of miscarriage
of justice. I could not defend myself, because I did not have enough
money for computer expert.
I was forced to confess for possession of child porn. I got browser
hijackers while browsing the web. I was redirected to illigal sites
against my will. Some illigal pictures were found on my hard drive only after
recovering in unallocated clusters, without dates of files
creation/download.
I do not know how can courts press widely on people to convict them,
while whole Internet is a mess.
This is my story in inquisition21.com. There is all information about case written by Irish writer Brian Rothery.
http://www.inquisition21.com/article~view~7~page_num~3.html
This is publication in Wired news
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63391,00.html
This is publication in Theregester
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/browser_hijacking_risks/
Article in ZDnet
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5344831.html
This is article in Washington Times, May 22, 2004
There is information about my case.
http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20040521-084242-5633rhtm
This is publication in Globe and Mail
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040617.gttwhijac17/BNStory/Technology/
Article in Crime research center:
http://www.crime-research.org/news/07.22.2004/506/
Article in search security:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci994463,00.html
The same case overturned:
http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=apple_valley&story=139174
The problem for me now is to find lawyer, who can review the case. When I pleaded guilty, there were no any publications, like in wired news. This article was posted on hundreds sites, published in newspapers, discussed on many boards, and translated to many languages.
I think the problem with my confession was prosecutors pushed case to trial without any thoughts about computer experts. Judge answered NO for any requests. Prosecutor promised couple years in prison. My lawyer came to me and said ‘You must answer in next 5 minutes, after that they call jurors for trial’. 100% you will get conviction, no doubt.
100% to get conviction, and go to prison for couple years. This was opinion of very experienced lawyer. Going to prison with child sex conviction, there were possibilities to get raped, bitten, or even killed. These were real, very real.
So it was pressing like criminals pressing on victim. I am political refugee from Soviet Union, and in my understanding, there are no difference between prosecution, court, police and criminals. I got another prove of this.
So I need to find lawyer who wants to make a nose. If you know this kind lawyer, please let me know. People are silent in this country because charging with any crime is very easy, but defence costs huge money. Most people do not have $15,000 for lawyer, but this is not enough. I think $200,000 is not enough to defend yourself. So police and and procecution enjoy abusing of power, like masters with slaves.
I just tryed to explain why there was plea agreement. Some people do not understand this. They asking questions like why admitted something you are not guilty of. Josef Stalin victims admitted to any crime just to exchance for easy death. Also you probably read Orwell ‘1984’
Fima.
It just makes me sick while reading this but at the same time I am thankful for the post because it raises the awareness about what goes on in children’s hospital.
Wow! Based on the scanty description in this article, the hospital administration may have gone way over the top. If you have html turned on in your email, you can end up “visiting” a pornography site for purposes of the kind of monitoring it sounds like they were doing. I can’t imagine how they could suspend all three doctors without being subject to some sort of liability.
Sounds kind of like the classic case of zero-tolerance versus harm reduction, no?