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Damian Green: Not only my workstation – mystery pr0n all over Parliamentary PCs

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Re: Did he do it or not?

But I would still very much doubt it was some kind of automated javascript popper that were randomly throwing porn thumbnails into the browser's cache and web history, for no reason.

You get that the raid happened in 2008 right?

Let me give you an idea of public sector IT back then - having worked in it:

Internet Explorer 6 was king, pop-up blockers were still relatively new and badly written intranet sites/apps often required you to switch the blocker off to be able to do minor tasks like logging in and printing reports.

Getting a load of unwanted (or unknown) porn back then would have been commonplace if there wasn't anything in place blocking blacklisted / allowing whitelisted traffic (which, as has been established in other posts on this thread, there wasn't)

As another poster has already said, that you claim to have a background in forensics without any understanding of how easy it is for files do be dumped in your cache without your knowledge/permission is alarming.

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