University of Twente NOC Fire Arson

Lars writes "A 26-year old man from Hengelo has admitted to deliberately setting fire to the Network Operations Centre of University of Twente, last Wednesday. The fire gutted two wings of the building and devastated one of the fastest networks in Europe. The arsonist is an employee of the University, which must come as quite a shock to those involved. The University released a short statement to the press. It mentions that the total damage caused is roughly 40-50 million euros (about the same in dollars) and that the guy was caught last Friday, when he tried to set fire to one of the faculty buildings."

Comments

Look at it this way.

[Unknown Poltroon]

IF the new server survives this, its probably fireproof too.

Re:How's he gonna repay it?

[pubjames]

So, this guy gets out when he is 30yrs old, can find a job and move on with his life looking for more buildings to burn down. isnt there something wrong with that?

You're right! 40 million Euros is too much for him to ever pay back! Let's kill him! Yeah! I'll start the chant! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Come on everyone, join in! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Those Euro weenies will probably just say he's mentally unstable or something, and give him a few years in jail and a nice psychologist to talk to. Losers! Kill him! Kill him!...

Imagine..

[xchino]

Imagine a beowulf cluster.. up in flames

duck

Sorry..

Re:DOS attack

[ichimunki]

Yeah, fsck the First Amendment... and screw the whole point of the WWW anyway. It will now be illegal to link to a site without first obtaining permission. That's a precedent I'm excited about. This is a technical problem with technical solutions, not a social/ethical issue.