Sysadmin Steals Almost 20,000 Pieces of Computer Equipment 258
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."
WTF (Score:2, Funny)
Where do I find these $6 computers this guy is stealing?
Per item... (Score:2, Funny)
19,709 pieces of stolen computer equipment [...] amounting to over $120,000
Wow, that's almost $6.09 per stolen item! Truly, this is comparable to a $700,000,000,000 wall street bailout.
The investigation widens... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
Excuse me ... (Score:5, Funny)
Office Equipment (Score:5, Funny)
wants to be free!
Re:Your Rights Online? (Score:5, Funny)
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"...
Wow! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
19,700 sheets of paper....
Re:Excuse me ... (Score:3, Funny)
Mine is the Swingline.
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:1, Funny)
Toner particles bring the average down.
Obviously no toilet seats (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently he didn't get any of those $600 toilet seats or $900 hammers that we used to hear about the military procuring.
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:2, Funny)
They deserve it. Really. Take this as a lesson. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:$6.08 per item! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The investigation widens... (Score:5, Funny)
You've seen The Dark Knight then.
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
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
Copyright (Score:1, Funny)
He only stole one computer, took a picture of it and copied it 20,000 times.
Because in USA, copying is stealing!
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The investigation widens... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple solution. Ask (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Impressive... most impressive... or not... (Score:5, Funny)
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'.
Re:More likely ex-military spec (Score:3, Funny)
from TFA: private information from 14 employees and contractors who worked at the laboratory from 1998 to 2002 had been found on CDs or zip drives (emphasis mine)
Cutting edge military hardware.
Well those zip drives did have the click of death....
Re:More likely ex-military spec (Score:5, Funny)
There are 1 kinds of people in this world, those who start indexing with 0, and thouse who don't?
"Red October" scenario (Score:2, Funny)