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Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment

Posted by samzenpus on from the was-that-wrong dept.

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."

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  1. So True... by Interfacer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am sysadmin in a pharmaceutical company, and the Parent is correct.

    We have 3 DELL 2600 servers with Dual CPU Xeon cpu, SCSI raid5, 4GB RAM ready to make their final trip to the dumpster.
    We cannot use them anymore for plant systems because they are obsolete and out of support.
    They are too big and noisy to use as test systems (as opposed to the 2U 2650s that we are going to keep just for that).

    I would love to have even one of those machines in my basement, but it is not going to happen.
    Corporate policy forbids employees from taking or even buying obsolete equipment.
    In the beginning it was allowed, but someone once abused the system really badly, so now there has to be a documented paper trail for the destruction of all things going the the digital eternity.

    We are going to try and give them away to a charity or school because it hurts to see those perfectly good machines except the disks) destroyed. But if we can't find anyone willing to take them, they will be destroyed. :(