Porn brings Dutch civil service to a halt

Who said Maastricht was boring?

By Aled Herbert, 10 January 2002 16:30

NEWS A 32-year-old Dutch civil servant has crashed his division's computer network by downloading too much porn. The 20-computer network had been running slowly for several weeks, employees told the Dutch press. When the system ground to a complete halt the helpdesk identified the saucy source of bottleneck. The employee, who is employed at the Dutch National Archive in Maastricht, now faces the sack.

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