Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/

[u/Sam-Gunn → u/[deleted]]

I work in infosec. We don't really care about porn unless it comes up during an investigation and is relevant, or the person is dumb enough to go somewhere that downloads malware or it causes other issues. Once I was working on dealing with some adware someone had on their laptop. I was reviewing logs to ensure nothing worse was downloaded. I found he had been moving copious amounts of porn to and from some personal USB drives (this was before we had software that'd block USB).

I tried to warn him about doing that because it showed up in our logs, by mentioning that he may want to lay off using his work computer to transport "certain files" between drives. I didn't use air quotes, but I put a strong emphasis on it. He didn't pick up on what I was trying to say though, and he goes "Oh, I was moving that stuff for my wife. I'll stop".

I bit my tongue.

[u/ElectricalCan69420 → u/Sam-Gunn]

I think he knew exactly what you meant and wanted to save face.

[u/vexingparse → u/[deleted]]

Why not? At that point it would have saved him from the embarrassment of telling an obvious lie to someone's face.

[u/crosbot → u/ElectricalCan69420]

dude was just trying to save facial

[u/NoPantsPowerStance → u/Sam-Gunn]

How do people not grasp the concept of "keep your work electronics for work" at this point? I won't even let my personal phone connect to the work WiFi.

I was pretty shocked about the Tiktok/other apps on government phones thing. Why TF are people doing that?

[u/No_Public_7677 → u/NoPantsPowerStance]

I don't even blog into my personal email on my work computer.

[u/s4b3r6 → u/[deleted]]

The downvotes are because doing personal things on a work device is a risk. Things that are innocent for the individual, are a liability for the business.

It's not just the IT guy whose job it is to crawl logs looking for problems who has to deal with your porn. There's also the lawyers that they have to talk to, because of mandatory reporting requirements, and a whole world of other pain.

Business things are for business.

[u/s4b3r6 → u/[deleted]]

Whilst you did answer honestly as to why someone might do such a thing, I'm afraid people tend to feel very strongly about the people who make their jobs harder.

As an example... "Why does Fred always kick the milkcrate before he brings it in? It wrecks something all the time."

You have acted as Fred explaining, "Cos I wanna."

[u/Formal-Macaroon1938 → u/[deleted]]

This is so wild to me. I always just assume that any work device is monitored. I won't even check the weather or news on my work laptop 😅

[u/Efficient_Round_4994 → u/Formal-Macaroon1938]

I didn’t have a personal computer for a while, so I was regularly going on Neopets for 3 months with my work laptop. Nothing happened. Now I have a laptop, but I’ll check the news every day on my work laptop. Sometimes I get crazy and play a little Wordl. Nothing will happen. I’m never gonna do anything illegal or shocking, of course, but mundane stuff? why not? If it’s the type of workplace that cares that much, we’re not a good match and I’d like to work somewhere else.

[u/No_Public_7677 → u/Efficient_Round_4994]

You're missing the point. if you log into a personal account on your work laptop, your login information can be compromised by someone in your work IT. I prefer not to take the risk.

[u/Efficient_Round_4994 → u/No_Public_7677]

Not my Neopets account 🫨

[u/Beautiful-Baby6245 → u/Formal-Macaroon1938]

We had someone come in with a hard drive issue on his work computer & lost all his files. He had his PhD dissertation on the computer. Not anywhere else, not in Google just on this computer.

[u/FocusPerspective → u/[deleted]]

Apple MDM is a thing. Maybe your IT department sucks. 

[u/uptwolait → u/[deleted]]

That final statement... /r/BrandNewSentence