Don't mind me while I walk out of the building with your top secret computers.

Skywing · September 05, 2003, 07:26 PM

Wouldn't you feel stupid if you were the head of security here?

Hitmen · September 05, 2003, 07:40 PM

Wow, and people say americans are stupid.

Grok · September 05, 2003, 08:56 PM

What's more amazing is the extremely high degree of spin being put on the theft. They're repeatedly assuring each other that no sensitive information is at risk, as if the repetition will cause it to be true.

al-quaeda didn't steal the computers for their hardware value. they're not morons.

no amount of spin will make that less than a total success for al-quaeda or whomever did the theft.

iago · September 05, 2003, 10:08 PM

That reminds me of my University.. over the course of 10 months last year 60 computers were stolen. But they were actually stolen for hardware value

Hitmen · September 05, 2003, 10:14 PM

After the first were stolen you'd think they would want to increase security. Guess not.

iago · September 06, 2003, 06:50 AM

I don't think they realized it was happening

Adron · September 06, 2003, 06:56 AM

Universities are harder to protect - you probably want students to be given as much access as possible, and there are *lots* of students.

j0k3r · September 06, 2003, 08:05 AM

Yes but universities can hire staff to watch the stuff and lock stuff up.

Adron · September 06, 2003, 10:33 AM

Quote from: j0k3r on September 06, 2003, 08:05 AM
Yes but universities can hire staff to watch the stuff and lock stuff up.

They can, but actually if you think about it, you can afford to lose some computers if it saves staff wages. Hmm, for generic pcs, estimate 60 computers/year = 2 people's wages?

Camel · September 06, 2003, 03:15 PM

In my AP Comp Sci class on Friday, a friend and I spent the entire block picking the locks on the keyboards because they obstructed the range of movement of the mouse. We weren't even attempting to hide it, and nobody cared.

[edit] BTW, they are G4s, so they have optical usb mice plugged into the side of the keyboard. The mouse and keyboard are locked down because *cough* someone realized freshman year that they were unsecured.

Grok · September 06, 2003, 03:25 PM

There's a typical case of poor economics. The total amount of cost for all those locks have to significantly exceed the cost of replacement for a few stolen ones.

Camel · September 06, 2003, 05:00 PM

I don't know, the locks were pretty cheap...

Additionally, someone attempted to steal a laptop from the library a couple of years ago and was caught.

j0k3r · September 06, 2003, 08:19 PM

Quote from: Camel on September 06, 2003, 05:00 PM
I don't know, the locks were pretty cheap...

Additionally, someone attempted to steal a laptop from the library a couple of years ago and was caught.

LMFAO, people steal PC's without consequence and get caught stealing Laptops...

Camel · September 06, 2003, 08:34 PM

Actually, he was caught because of the DHCP server -- at my school each WAP has its own set of IP addresses, so they knew he was in one of about three rooms.

j0k3r · September 06, 2003, 09:06 PM

So they were coincidentally there and coincidentally noticed one go offline or did the DHCP server alert someone somehow?