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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it - Mae West
Sysadmin nicked nearly 20,000 pieces of kit
A SYSADMIN who had worked at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC plead guilty in federal court on Wednesday to stealing 19,709 pieces of computer gear and supplies over an approximately ten year period ending in 2007.
Court documents said the swag looted by Victor Papagno was valued at over $120,000 and included a wide variety of items, from printer toner and software to hard drives, personal computers and other pieces of office equipment.
A local TV station reported that Papagno boosted so much stuff over the years that at times he had to store some of it at neighbors' houses.
Reportedly no national security information was compromised by the thefts, but personal data belonging to 14 laboratory workers was stolen and those people have been notified.
Papagno is looking at up to two years in federal prison when he is sentenced in December. ยต
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How many floppy discs and ethernet cables figure in the total?
...His defense is that the aroma from the Blue Plains sewage treatment facility next door made him do it.
Come on now, 19,709 is substantially less than "nearly 20,000". Give us a break Enq!
Does anyone else think that two years is a little too short of a punishment? I don't know, but it just sounds low to me. Especially because there was personal data involved and it was a federal institution.
Those reams of paper contain 500 sheets *each*.
They must have had the same auditors as Enron...
Is this the wrong place to talk about BOFHs?
We really should. I despise thieves and think they are complete dicks.
To get caught for such low-level thievery. Tarnishes the good names of Enron and Halliburton, it does.
He should have been nicking entire server racks instead of a few piddling floppies.
Serves him right.
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