Tech Shout!

The Washington headquarters of NASA was raided last week by investigators who were looking around for proof of child pornography.

The Feds attention moves towards a NASA manager named James Robinson, when he responded to online ads for child pornography last year, Smoking Gun reports.

Robinson, 42, used the pseudo name Jim Saron and sent pictures and videos to several secret investigators. He told investigators the pictures were from P2P networks like Kazaa. His IP address was quickly tracked to NASA and his home computer.

Investigators contacted NASA, which used Web ConText to keep an eye on Robinson’s web use. The software picked up 67 images of “apparently minor females”.

All this gave all the possible reasons for issuing a search warrant.