It’s one thing to be a politician use your work computer to send out shirtless photos of yourself to Craiglists cruisers. It’s another thing entirely to use the laptop paid for by your constituents’ tax dollars as a dumping ground for your gay porn collection. Simon Renwick didn’t know this.
Officially Renwick, a Tory councilman for Fylde Borough, insists somebody else downloaded the 1,000-plus pictures to his work laptop. See, he wasn’t smart enough to maintain strong password security on the computer, letting anyone just sneak all those pixxx on the hard drive. Conveniently enough, the images appeared just as his marriage was crumbling, Renwick says, and he thinks their appearance on the computer was part of a revenge attack.
When the scandal arose last year, Renwick faced a suspension and possibly five-year ban from serving as a councilor. In a hearing (that he didn’t attend) this week, Renwick was handed a six-month suspension for not properly protecting his computer, not for possessing the X-rated (but not illegal) images.
“Despite the pressure and the unbearable strain on my health over this, I have learnt lessons,” Renwick says in a statement. “I have become very acutely aware of password and computer security. A hard won lesson.” Tip: Don’t change your password to sex.
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J. R. Braden
That’s why I have a smart phone. I can download thousands of gay porn pictures and videos at work without having to store them on my work computer! Three cheers for modern technology!
Gigi
Who needs to carry porn around on his phone? J.R. Braden I would surmise.
EdWoody
I’m all for looking at porn, obviously. But come on – how fucking stupid do you have to be to use your work laptop for this?
J. R. Braden
Gigi, it’s called sarcasm. I don’t store porn on my phone. It’s streaming free on the Internet, and you don’t even have to download it!
Since you seem to be mentally retarded, I feel I should explain that this was more sarcasm.
I’m trying to make the point that people who are so careless as to store pornographic photos on a harddrive in 2011 when there are so many better options for viewing naked people doing literally anything imaginable to other naked people are either extremely computer illiterate, have been framed by someone else, or are starved for attention and wanted to be caught. Storing that much porn on your work computer is the masturbation equivalent of Ed Geins piling up the bodies in his front yard: You know he’s not so stupid as to think he’s going to get away with dumping the evidence right there, so why else could he be doing it?
In this analogy, I guess RocketTube.com would be the equivalent of the crawlspace under Ed’s house? I’m not sure. I’ll think about that one and get back to you.