Trueman Equates Porn and Computer Viruses
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Never let it be said Patrick Trueman missed an opportunity to proselytize.Trueman, formerly the chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, now works as an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund, an organization that defines itself as “a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth (sic) through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.” “Truth,” as the ADF defines it, is Judeo-Christian religious ideology.
Trueman wasted no time in responding to a recent ScanSafe report (http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=news_article&sid=46555) that remote workers may be endangering their employers by using their laptop computers to log on to “not-safe-for-work” sites like peer-to-peer networks, sites that promote activities such as bomb-making, violent sites, and porn sites. His take: Much of the content is illegal, and employers should monitor their employees’ Web use.
Porn, he warned, is rife with computer viruses.
“Workers who are looking at pornography sites are far more likely to bring viruses to their computer than someone who avoids those sites,” Trueman told OneNewsNow.com. “The porn companies want to get customers — so they will infect a computer so that [a user] get[s] pop-ups of pornography on the computer and links to porn sites, etcetera.
“A worker can get their company into trouble, for example, by downloading child porn or even viewing child porn or copying copyrighted material,” he also said. “They’re using a company computer, [so] the company might be liable.”