The color drained from Ben's face when he was handed the report. His hand shook when he picked it up and scanned the contents.

It was a log of everything he had done on the Internet since the beginning of the year -- every website he had visited, every IM conversation he had had, every email he had sent out and received -- not only by the company mail but those sent from his Yahoo and Hotmail accounts.

Everything he had said and done on the Internet during the last year lay before him, and it wasn't a pretty picture.

His boss' face was expressionless. The HR woman sitting beside him looked grim.

"I'm afraid we are going to have to let you go, Ben," Mr. Donaldson said at length. "You've been wasting company time and resources, and the websites you've accessed and the mail you