Surfing for Porn on the Government Payroll

I just couldn't avoid this storySecurities and Exchange Commission employees spent hours surfing porn sites according to ABC News.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. But the new report, obtained by ABC News, says senior employees of the SEC spent hours on the commission's computers looking at sites like naughty.com, skankwire, youporn, and others.

The investigation, which was conducted by the SEC's internal watchdog at the request of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, found 31 serious offenders over the past two and a half years. Seventeen of the offenders were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year.

Of course high paying officers were more likely to be caught, they are the ones with private offices. If some clerk was trying to do it, they would have been caught much sooner and charged with sexual harassment.

Lest you think it just a bunch of dirty old men, get this paragraph:

An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.

If you figure a 5 day work week, that is 180 sites a day, or in a nine-hour day, 20 sites an hour. Seriously, how did this woman get any work done?

Another SEC accountant attempted to access 16,000 sites in a single month. Seriously!! You can't blame that on a virus.