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> What would you do in these circumstances?
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> My (female) boss had a cousin (also female) who was going
> through a divorce. Cousin & ex had bought a laptop
> between them, but he'd used it 99% of the time. When he
> left / got kicked out, she kept it.
>
> The laptop had Win2K on it & was password protected so it
> was useless to her - my boss asked me if there was
> anything I could do so that her cousin could make use of
> this laaptop, seeing as she'd paid for half of it.
>
> I took it away & within minutes had gotten into the
> administrator account & reset all passwords - only problem
> was you couldn't fail to notice it was bursting at the
> seams with porn. Now I wasn't snooping here, but when
> there are files all over the desktop you can't fail to
> notice. Nothing illegal, it was mostly amateur stuff and
> a brief look (well, you'd have to wouldn't you) revealed
> that he had obviously at least been trying (if not
> successfully getting away with) using chatrooms & message
> boards for soliciting extra-marital sex.
>
> I don't really know my boss that well (she'd been here 3
> months) and don't know her cousin at all. Seeing as she's
> in the process of divorcing this fella the fact that he's
> been up to such things may warrant a mention during
> divorce proceedings. The question is...what do you do?
>
> Would you hand it back, poon and all & say nothing of
> what's on there (ie: pretend you didn't notice)?
>
> Would you hand it back, porn & all, and warn your boss
> what's on it?
>
> Would you remove the porn without any mention & spare
> everyone's blushes?
>
> Would you feign failure in getting past the passwords,
> wipe the hard drive & reinstall an operating system?
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