Interestingly, the IDF rabbinate has been hit with a porn scandal. An officer is suspected of surfing porn sites from a junior officers computer. The junior officer claims to have proof that it was the more senior officer, but whichever one it was, it is a scandal.

It is interesting that this is considered a scandal. I imagine porn must be a problem in the army, just like in any army, wherever computers have unfiltered internet access. It's just the nature of a soldier.

The porn issue just shows that nobody is immune. It shows the importance of people using the Internet wisely, and using filters when possible. No person is automatically immune from these issues just because he is associated with one group over another. This is precisely why, or it is at least one of the reasons why, the haredi community recently started to deal with this issue in the form of the Internet asifas.

I suspect the more serous aspect of the scandal is more because of the issue of the officer having tried to hide it by using someone else's computer more than the actual pornography itself.

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