A former military investigator says illegal Internet pornography is taking a toll on some government workers.
Chuck Kellum spent 13-years as a computer crime investigator in the Air Force. During that time, Kellum says instances involving illegal porn, such as child pornography, increased dramatically. He also notes many of the investigators who were gathering evidence from government and personal computers were adversely affected because they had to view the evidence as part of their work.
"The long term effects of [that work] typically took [a toll on] an agent that normally would be one of the best and brightest that we had," describes Kellum. "You could tell the psychological impact it had on them tended to drive them toward not having good relationships with people in the office, not [being] able to conduct business as efficiently as they had before, and personal relationships they had tended to wither."
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