The Boston Globe is reporting that federal investigators have discovered over two dozen federal employees who downloaded and viewed child pornography on their taxpayer funded computers. The individuals worked for the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and other Pentagon related agencies. Some were convicted but sadly many more »

Delta says it plans to block websites it deems “inappropriate” when it rolls out its new Wi-Fi service. The service will be available on selected planes later this year and on all of its flights in 2009. The airline’s original plan was to let flight attendants handle any issues, but they changed their mind and will now be using a software solution. Like American Airlines, they will also block VOIP service to avoid customer complaints of passengers making loud phone calls.

The Wi-Fi service will be provided by Aircell’s GoGo service, and they said they have no problem filtering content if requested. Privacy experts, not surprisingly are critical of the idea, fearing it could open the floodgates for outright censorship.

We never claim that these criminals are smart, but they always seem to be hitting a new low for stupidity. Recently a 17-year old from Wisconsin has been charged with felony child porn after he posted nude pictures of his 16 year old (i.e. underage) girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police, Alex more »