Months after arresting a man for having child pornography images on a state-issued laptop, prosecutors dropped the charges when a defense-sponsored forensic investigation showed that a poorly configured laptop that had become riddled with malware was to blame. The victim — besides the children in the images — was Michael Fiola, a former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. After he was given a sloppily configured replacement laptop running Windows XP with SP2 in November of 2006, he was fired in early 2007.
