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FBI Investigating Mystery Laptops Sent To US Governors
itwbennett writes "The FBI is trying to find out who is sending laptops to state governors across the US, including the governors of Wyoming and West Virginia. The West Virginia laptops were delivered to the governor's office on August 5, according to the Charleston Gazette, which first reported the story. Kyle Schafer, West Virginia's chief technology officer, says he doesn't know what's on the laptops, but he handed them over to the authorities. 'Our expectation is that this is not a gesture of good will,' he said. 'People don't just send you five laptops for no good reason.'"
Next week on CNN: Pen & Paper sent to US Governors in hopes that they'd do more work. FBI called in to investigate.
"A what? Whatever, put it in the yard next to the giant wooden horse."
The article says that they were HP laptops, not Sony.
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Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
This just in... It seems the governor's office was right to be wary. The FBI have confirmed that all the laptops are infected with Windows Vista Basic. Truly nasty.
As a resident of West Virginia, I assure you it wasn't a trust issue. Rather, the laptops did not have 28.8 modems to connect to the local bbs rendering them useless in the Mountain State.
West Virginia - keeping Hughes Net in business since 2005.
I just got off the phone with HP customers service, and boy, am I pissed. I ordered 5 new laptops a week ago, and no one can tell me where the hell they are.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.