Drunken Employee Shoots Server 309
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samzenpus
from the pc-load-letter dept.
from the pc-load-letter dept.
Target Practice writes "A drunken mortgage worker at RANLife Home Loans decided for unknown reasons to take out the company's $100,000 server with a .45-caliber automatic, blaming the damage on an imagined assailant who: mugged him, assaulted him with his own weapon, drugged him, and then broke into his office to shoot said server. According to acquaintances, he had threatened earlier that day to shoot the server and maybe himself."
Should of had a HP sever (Score:3, Interesting)
Should of had a HP sever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFyXlb26ihs [youtube.com]
Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score:3, Interesting)
What do we learn? NEVER piss off a Sysadmin! (Score:2, Interesting)
Booyakasha! That's the Law Of Karma for you, in form of a Crazed, Drunken Gunman/Sysadmin. Didn't they learn from the case of State Of California trying to get passwords from a Lonely Sysadmin, Terry Childs [wikipedia.org] ? Sysadmins Are Crazy! They have to be, to make sense out of all that Chaos! Don't mess with them or be prepared to take the occasional bullet in your servers! ;) Anyway, a Loan Company probably deserved this after what they have done to drive people into economical crisises.
Relating to Terry Childs, http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/042710-admin-who-kept-sf-network.html [networkworld.com]:
"One of the reasons it was so expensive for the City to recover control of its network is because Childs had set routers to store configuration information in memory instead of on their hard drives, so any disruption of power would have wiped out this information. This made it very difficult for the city to reset the routers and recover administrative control of the network without reconfiguring the entire system." San Francisco spent about US$900,000 cleaning up the mess caused by Childs' actions, according to Assistant District Attorney Conrad Del Rosario."
Im Lak'Ech Sakari, A Proud Sysadmin