Admin stole computers to become the leader of SETI @ Home
The distributed project for decoding radio signals from space SETI @ Home was launched more than ten years ago. This is the world's largest distributed computing project, and many of us are used to launching a beautiful screensaver. Therefore, it is sincerely sorry for Brad Niesluchowski, a system administrator for one of the school districts in Arizona, who was fired for being too zealous in the search for extraterrestrial civilizations.
As follows from the materials of the criminal case, Nesluchowski stole 18 computers and installed them at home, using the computing cluster for the SETI @ Home program, and also, most likely, for a similar system of distributed scientific computing BOINC . In addition, he installed the SETI @ Home program on all school computers.
As a result, the admin is charged with damages ranging from $ 1.2 million to $ 1.6 million. These are the electricity consumption for ten years, processor depreciation and other costs.
The investigation revealed that Nesluzovski was registered with the SETI @ Home project in February 2000, a month after being hired in the school district, and since then has become the undisputed leader of the SETI @ Home project in terms of the amount of processed information (see SETI @ Home statistics NEZ ): 579 million "credits", which is equivalent to about 10.2 million hours of machine time.
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Although the efforts of Nesluchoff were directed to the benefit of all mankind, he was fired from his job. The investigation also revealed that he did not install a protective firewall in the school network and did not train technical staff. Regarding the amount of financial damage will still understand. The trial of Brad Nesluchowski will take place soon.
As follows from the materials of the criminal case, Nesluchowski stole 18 computers and installed them at home, using the computing cluster for the SETI @ Home program, and also, most likely, for a similar system of distributed scientific computing BOINC . In addition, he installed the SETI @ Home program on all school computers.
As a result, the admin is charged with damages ranging from $ 1.2 million to $ 1.6 million. These are the electricity consumption for ten years, processor depreciation and other costs.
The investigation revealed that Nesluzovski was registered with the SETI @ Home project in February 2000, a month after being hired in the school district, and since then has become the undisputed leader of the SETI @ Home project in terms of the amount of processed information (see SETI @ Home statistics NEZ ): 579 million "credits", which is equivalent to about 10.2 million hours of machine time.
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Although the efforts of Nesluchoff were directed to the benefit of all mankind, he was fired from his job. The investigation also revealed that he did not install a protective firewall in the school network and did not train technical staff. Regarding the amount of financial damage will still understand. The trial of Brad Nesluchowski will take place soon.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/284464/
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