Story: Firms keep silent over child pornography
Posted by: Steve J (Thursday 12 May 2005, 11:36 AM)
The problem is, every IT administrator knows that as soon as an allegation of kiddie porn is made to the police, the police will remove for evidence every item of hardware that could have been involved. That means computers, servers, routers, firewalls, you name it. Seems over the top, but they're not going to risk not getting a conviction through lack of evidence. It could also reveal accomplices and contacts, however, I reckon this is the real reason why a network admin wouldn't report it. Who wants to be responsible for such a massive uproar?
On the other hand, a proper policy for these things generally comes down from on high, so it's a director that responsible for setting out the policy of reporting it to the police. All the IT admin is doing is following orders.
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