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This is basically what the GOP is doing to the federal government.
105k? I hope they recovered both the CPUs...
Only one CPU, but 64gb of ram, so a win overall.
Came here to say this, LOL.
Those are rookie numbers (c)
I guess stealing packages don't pay the bills any more.
Hidden surveillance cameras captured Liu opening government computers and swapping hardware during the midnight shift.
46 times? What were they waiting for?!
Their cut.
Silly rabbit! Theft is for the filthy rich.
Restoring the stolen hardware could cost about $20,460, while fully replacing all 46 compromised computers with equivalent hardware would cost an estimated $105,800. However, additional labor to configure each system for government use will drive the bill even higher.
I like how this dude basically did the inverse of pc servicing during his night shift, but it's somehow gonna cost more than $100k to do the exact same thing to swap the correct components. Classic government math lol
Government bad
Have you seen the cost of computer components recently?
$20k worth of hardware last month would cost around $100k this month
???? The amount is gonna be 100k because they have to buy the components and see if the damage has been compromised for the software. That shit adds up expeditiously.
He was doing the work “for free” because he was gonna get paid by selling the stolen parts (or else he was double dipping). Point is, the government has to pay someone else to fix em
Pre-builts are cheaper than single components but they only had the contact for the computers and technically they still have the cases, maybe motherboards too, so they'd be over strength if they bought more prebuilts. So now they have to go off economy if they want to get those computers working again or deal with the hassle of turning in the old equipment, waiting for it to fall off the books and then ordering "new" equipment but during that time people wouldn't be working so you might spend 80k to avoid spending 1M in salaries to avoid waiting to spend 20k.
Some of the computers has Raptor Lake processors and they were replaced with Pentiums?
Lacking more evidence I'm going to wager this person was swapping stuff on equipment that had already been turned in because I can't picture a world where someone who knows enough about computers to know what parts to take and has a pile of pentiums to work with tries that on anything someone's expected to use. Then again emailing one's personal account from an official account about Illegal Activity kind of makes me wonder.
"Degraded performance" sounds like a euphamism.
So the USA is becoming the USSR
Collapsing empires express a lot of similar symptoms
Yeah a lot of us noticed when we were in Afghanistan
More and more it feels like the USA didn’t win the Cold War, the USSR just lost first
A true fucking hero.
Over $100,000, so 3 maybe 4 computers?
Just 1, but it has 128 GB of RAM
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According to the affidavit, investigators found that thirty-nine computers had their processors replaced, six machines with memory modules swapped, and eight had hard drive changes. The original systems used Raptor Lake Refresh chips but were later discovered to have older hardware, sometimes downgraded to Pentium chips. Beyond the processor swap, other computers had less memory and storage capacity than their original configurations.
I didn't know Pentium shared the same socket.
socket 1700 supports both alder lake (12th gen) and raptor lake (13th, refresh 14th gen) intel processors.
12th gen had low-end processors branded 'pentium', all three gens had the usual i3/i5/i7 (it was the next gen after this that rebranded intel's cpu lineup). the 14th gen low-end chip was rebranded without the 'pentium' trademark.
the same chipset and firmware quite often supported all three generations of cpu, enabling the easy cpu swap from 14th gen core i7 to 12th gen pentium.
The Pentium became Intel's budget processor when the Core architecture came out. When the i7s, i5s, and i3s are tested and binned, the dies that are still fully functional but didn't quite muster i3 levels (only 1 or 2 cores work, some of the cache is defective, only works at lower power levels/clock speeds, etc) are binned as Pentiums.
The leftovers that aren't completely scrap are stamped as Celerons and Atoms.
I've grossly oversimplified it, but that's the general idea.
Twenty-seven years later, and it is still all about the Pentiums.
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I got some nicotine pouches that was supposed to come in from Sweden and it's been stuck in customs in Newark for over a month and a half now.
I had since made another order of the same stuff from the same vendor, it came in through a different port, and was delivered 2 days later.
I dunno what's going on in Newark but I suspect it's not going to be "destroyed", at least not in the means they expect.
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They replaced the stolen parts with inferior hardware and exchanged the stolen equipment through Newegg’s trade-in program for store credit.
Actually a decent way to move the loot.
Apparently not that decent, because they were already caught
The thing that caught them was secret cameras, not tracing the parts back through a reseller. This worked well enough it didn't raise any flags with the feds who were looking for abnormalities.
So if you buy a used i7 processor from Newegg, there's a non-zero chance that who knows what went through it
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trump would be proud. If you arnt stealing or grifting, you arnt in his inner circle.
Yeah but you gotta pay kick a percentage up to the boss. This guy got busted, so I guess he didn't do that.
This implies that there are many more people doing the same with better ability to not get caught (yet).
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