Pentagon Employee Tried To Access Porn At Work More Than 12 Thousand Times

With all the government surveillance and monitoring of our private activities, one Pentagon employee clearly thought that perhaps the only way to look at porn safely was while he was at work. That's the only possible explanation for why he would have tried to access pornography more than 12,000 times in a twelve month period. 

According to RT.com (link below), an internal memo from the Department of Defense's headquarters revealed this startling statistic, as well as the equally startling excuse this guy managed to cough up in a clear moment of desperation.

The investigation, details of which were obtained by the Washington Times via a Freedom of Information Act request, found that the man was blocked from accessing porn hundreds of times from October 2013 to May 2014. His name was withheld from the agency's report.

He was then blocked about 3,000 times in both June and July, and more than 6,000 times in August, according to network firewall logs.

The employee, who works for the Pentagon’s Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS), told investigators that he had tried to view porn at work because he did not have a personal computer.

The DFAS employee already had an “extensive record of dubious web usage,” according to the report, as he was also subject to an investigation in 2011 over viewing porn on the job.

So yeah, he's got an "extensive record of dubious web usage," but it's not as if his porn viewing at work was compromising the nation's safety.

As many porn sites come with the risk of cyberattacks via malware, the employee’s “extensive history of attempts to access these websites present an increased level of risk to the DFAS computer network,” investigators wrote.

This seems like the perfect time to raise a question which I've always wondered... Why does anyone visit porn sites at work? I mean, seriously. Do you not think that everything you do at work is being monitored? It's not like I ever access porn at work, so I'm allowed to be righteous about this. Just curious, because I imagine some of you must be at work right now.  

Via RT.com