The early days of my law practice involved lots of legal aid criminal work and aligned with the beginnings of the web. A pal of mine prosecuted web related cases in the region and we used to scratch our heads over the people getting convicted over downloading bad wicked stuff on to floppy disks while at their jobs. What exactly did they think was going to happen? How did they think it was that a co-worker would not be shocked into telling someone or that the IT guys wouldn't have filters?

Well, sometimes it seems like it is 1994 again when you read about stories like this:

The deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was arrested Tuesday for using the Internet to seduce what he thought was a teenage girl, authorities said. Brian J. Doyle, 55, was arrested at his residence in Maryland on charges of use of a computer to seduce a child and transmission of harmful material to a minor. The charges were issued out of Polk County, Fla. Doyle, of Silver Spring, Md., had a sexually explicit conversation with what he believed was a 14-year-old girl whose profile he saw on the Internet on March 14, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The girl was really an undercover Polk County Sheriff’s Computer Crimes detective, the sheriff’s office said.