I find this difficult to believe. My last two employers had programs that spotted illicit activities. Just knowing such programs were out there would stop most of this activity. HR would handle the rest.
Government computers are likely much more restrictive on what they can do and where they can access.
There are different levels of control.
Surveillance is ultimately checked by human beings. If a human investigator doesn't get interested, nothing will be done.
Remember that vast numbers of Obama appointees and hires have been sprinkled through every part of the government.
“I find this difficult to believe. My last two employers had programs that spotted illicit activities. Just knowing such programs were out there would stop most of this activity. HR would handle the rest.”
Any employer of any substantial size does. There are some ugly liabilities involved. For example, if those images exist in the corporate servers’ cache, is the company liable? The CIO? If it’s just “porn”, how do you know how old the people in the images are? This is why the few lunatics who have done this (and AFAIK just for plain old porn) at various employers I’ve had in the last 20 years were disappeared by the next day. Of course, if you WORK for the government, no problemo, apparently.
“Government computers are likely much more restrictive on what they can do and where they can access.”
Certainly true in some areas, but Internet access for research and searches is just a requirement for many jobs these days. I could not do my job without access to technical sites and even blogs, for instance.