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PCs Pilfered, Paralyzing Populace
Heywood Yabuzof writes "According to this Wired story, thieves in Chile caused traffic to grind to a halt when they decided to steal the computers (15 PCs and 2 servers) that control the traffic lights in Santiago. Funny how everyone worries so much about preventing "evil hackers" from breaking in to systems remotely and causing chaos, and then some burglars just go ahead and steal the critical computers to produce the same (unintended?) results."
It's a good thing they had the servers all in one place, else they may have inconvenience the thieves.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
Not only did they steal the computers, they stole the alarm system that was supposed to protect them.
:P
The worlds most sarcastic criminals, is what we've got here
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Update: although the traffic jam caused a significant delay for police, the thieves were later arrested at Grand Central Station after hacking into a Gibson mainframe from a bank of public telephones. The perpetrators, identified as Angelina "Acid Burn" Jolie and Jonny Lee "Crash Override" Miller, were later released and have since gone on to make better movies. Sandra Bullock was unavailable for comment.
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
...for PCs on eBay that come pre-loaded with traffic controlling software.
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
"Ned, where did all the servers go!?!?"
"Don't worry, boss, they were all transfered over to the IBM e-server!"
"Oooooh, excellent! Ah, where exactly IS the e-server?"
"Oh, that got stolen."
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"