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Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment
coondoggie writes "Now this is some serious computer theft. We're talking 19,709 pieces of stolen computer equipment from the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. The theft included everything from PCs and printer toner to hard drives, software and other office equipment amounting to over $120,000, according to court documents and published reports."
In further news, a source inside the Pentagon reports that 17 pencils have been reported missing over the last three months. "These are critical communication devices, built to mil spec standards. They have the potential to inflict injury to an untrained operator. The Pentagon takes these communications security breaches quite seriously, and we will be looking for further funding to study this National Vulnerability."
Like, a big box of CD-Rs or something. If he had stolen a single CPU, they might as well have claimed that he stole more than 40 million transistors.
... I believe you still have my err, uh, stapler.
wants to be free!
And then what does it still have to do with YRO, unless he stole it over SSH under the guise of "free (as in computer parts) speech"...
19,700 sheets of paper....
No, it was just a couple PCs. They're just using the RIAA/CD-R theory to say that, since it was a couple really fast computers, it was the equivalent of thousands of 386's.
They ought to leverage his natural skills and abilities by putting this guy in charge of the disposal and recycling of old stuff. If he was taking old equipment with pre-ROHS circuit boards, he probably saved them >$120k in fees.
I hope he wiped those hard drives of any critical information. I wonder if he was working with those guys from MI6 who sold the camera?
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Apparently he didn't get any of those $600 toilet seats or $900 hammers that we used to hear about the military procuring.
Life needs more saving throws.
on a related note, does anyone wanna buy a box of paperclips?
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
My thoughts exactly. Was this a case of 19,000 pencils and then a few PCs?
Couldn't be, were talking 'military spec' pencils which cost at least $200 each
"... Federal investigators say they have nothing to go on."
Best way to sneak small things out of work is to (1) sell it on ebay and then (2) mail it while (3) pocketing the money. (Like that guy on MASH who mailed a jeep piece-by-piece.) Nobody examines packages closely.
There's the old joke about the guy who takes a wheel barrow of straw out of the yard every day, the security guard knows he's stealing something and searches it every day, but find only straw! Years later they bump into each other and the guard asks now its too late to do anything about it... what were you stealing? and the guy grins and says 'wheelbarrows'.
There are 1 kinds of people in this world, those who start indexing with 0, and thouse who don't?
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