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Sysadmin Steals Nearly 20,000 Pieces Of Computer Gear from Navy
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by Jordan Yerman | October 2, 2008 at 05:01 am
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If you steal from the navy, can you call it "piracy"? Even if it's on dry land? This is not a rhetorical question, since a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory has just pled guilty to ripping off nearly 20,000 pieces of computer equipment from the lab.
The systems administrator, Victor Papagno plead guilty in federal court today to stealing the items in a period between 1997 and 2007 to benefit Papagno and his friends, reports said.
He took so much stuff that he stored some of it in neighbors' houses, according to WTOP.com a local news outlet.
"Now this is some serious computer theft.
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Jordan Yerman
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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at 14:03 on October 2nd, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.