NSF Still Jerking It
The pantsless employees of NSF are back in the news. I wrote about them back in January about how employees don’t wear pants at work to make it easier to surf porn. HotAir reports today that the inspector general had to stop chasing fraud cases and concentrate on the massive amounts of bandwidth being wasted on porn.
This must be part of the efficiency that Barack Obama hails in government-run programs, right? The Washington Times says that porn surfing at the National Science Foundation got so bad and wasted so much time and money that the Inspector General had to postpone investigations into grant fraud to stop it. They will probably have to do the same thing next year, too, before they can stamp it out entirely:
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.
The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency’s inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.
The American Federation of Government Employees Union there might be the ones preventing anyone from implementing proper content filters. I have heard of them doing this in other federal agencies. If this is the case, the bigger issue, besides Federal Government agencies wasting tax dollars on porn is that their legitimate business there is at real risk of tampering and theft by hackers. Without content filters, you can’t stop drive by downloads, block malicious sites and can’t monitor violations of policies that threaten the enterprise. I bet the NSF is maggoty with botnets and backdoors.
What are employee unions doing setting IT policy??
