Obvious stat: 70% of IT pros spot porn on laptops

I only support my families but no porn there....although I don't doubt there is loads of porn at work...one of my coworkers was caught in his cubicle and had his privileges taken away.

We didn't spy on our people but there was an incident where our backup-software on the central file storage reported problems with some filenames. These were very explicitly titled video files that someone accidentally put in his work-folder which is then automatically backed up. And since it's research and might be relevant later on, goes to a secondary backup on tape which is then stored and archived for 10 years...
...always there in some tape archive, all the embarrassing stuff...

You mischaracterized the survey.
The word "porn" is never used.

The standard used of finding "inappropriate" pictures,
videos or browser cache links on employee laptops
is not a measure of porn content discovered.

In fact with that standard used and what a corporate environment
might find "inappropriate", they could find 7 out of 10 and no porn.

Learn how to read stats - 70% of IT administrators found porn on SOMEONE'S laptop, not ALL of them. That just means 70% of companies have 1 or more staff looking at it, not 70% of the staff.

@Lee

"Dude, Computer World is WAY to straight-laced to call it porn."

Computer World has no trouble using the word porn:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/googleSearch.do?cx=014839440456418836424%3A-khvkt1lc-e&q=porn&x=23&y=12&cof=FORID%3A9#1173

I find those all the time, actually our sonicwall notifies me when they go to those sites at work...I can't believe that some people still don't know we can see everything their doing in real time (-if i want).
I remember my first year in IT, i was working technical support. I got a call from a guy who was so frantic, and he wanted to know how to clear IE history. So i'm going through my normal support questions (4 W's, 1 H) and he tells me that his wife will be home soon and he doesn't want her to see where he was. Meanwhile I can hear one of his buddies in the background saying "hey man did you get the porn off yet?" HAHA! i thought it was funny so i stretched that 2min call to 15mins, lol.

Sometimes it's usefull when users have porn on their computers... That's just less i have to get = D

Um... 70% of IT administrators finding inappropriate material does not mean that 70% of people are doing this. Nowhere in this report does it give any indication of how many corporate computers have that kind of material.

It could be as low as 1 in 10,000 employees. We have no idea.

I think you shuld change your post. You are in danger of losing credibility as it comes off as sensationalist and poor reporting - and that you may be trying to legitimize some behavior of your own. I doubt you are, but it could come across that way.

Porn is everywhere and people are used to them, even women watch porn sometimes. I have some lady office mates who ask me to fill their thumb drive with porn every now and then because they know that I know where to get lots of it. It is not surprising that surveys show this kind of result.

70% of IT Administrators found inappropriate stuff, not 70% of employees!!! I am sure some company read this post, and are now out on a porn hunt on all of their employees computers, looking for an excuse to fire someone in this bad economy. Someone will have a picture titled handjob, and it will be a picture of someone that hurt their hand on the job.

Headline DEFINITELY needs to be changed. It is not only extremely misleading, but just plainly incorrect. I think enough people do not click through to the article that they will just read this and think that's what the survey results were.

This article needs to be corrected. Misquoted stats.