from the whatever-happened-to-honor-among-thieves? dept.
An IT contractor for a US government fraud and abuse watchdog pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing 16 US government computers.
According to prosecutors, Andrew Cheveers, 31, served as a techie for the State Department's Office of Inspector General (State OIG), where he held a security clearance and set up PCs for government employees.
The State OIG helps assess and mitigate risks to State Department personnel and facilities abroad. It also oversees contracts, grants, and foreign assistance programs; and it advises the State Department on IT security and management.
Justice Department prosecutors say Cheveers, between July 2016 and February 2017, stole as many as 16 Microsoft Surface Pro laptops belonging to Uncle Sam, and sold them online at sites like Craigslist and eBay.
They do say the biggest security threats are internal.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Saturday March 09 2019, @07:39AM (8 children)
Why does no one use the perfectly cromulent perfect tense for this any more? "Plea, pleaded, pled, will have pled", the last being the future perfect. Is it that English is becoming too hard, or are Americans actually getting more stupid?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:15AM (1 child)
Same reason we don't use Blee, bleeded, bled, will have bled. Language is evolving, English in particular. There is no central authority on the English language and I understood clearly what was meant as did you, which is the reason why I ain't worried about pedantry.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 09 2019, @10:46AM
Intriguingly, the otherwise free-lovin' Francophones _do_ have a Central Linquistic Authority. While I cannot be bothered to lift a finger to DuckDuckGo, I can tell you it's a respectable academic institute in Paris that in addition to ensuring that the existing French Language does _not_ evolve, proposes Francophonic translations of such English words as...
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Arik on Saturday March 09 2019, @08:26AM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:30PM
yes.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:58PM (3 children)
Hah! The one I find most funny is the American word "burglarized".
What's wrong with the perfectly good word "burgled"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 09 2019, @04:54PM
"Burgled" sounds like something two fags would do when they meet up at the gloryhole.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday March 09 2019, @06:35PM
Too easily confused with "bugled," "bungled," and "gargled."
You're welcome. :-)
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 10 2019, @08:51PM
Difference between the active (what burglars do) and the passive perfect (what happens to places that have been burgled). It is the latter, aristarchus!
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:32AM (3 children)
Kombucha is a terrorist plot to corrupt our precious intestinal fauna.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday March 09 2019, @06:36PM (1 child)
Kombucha has always tasted like the bile in the back of your throat after a night of hard drinking. People pay money for that?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday March 10 2019, @02:33AM
"Where am I?"
"In the Recovery Room. You had surgery."
"No I Didn't! Why does my shoulder hurt?"
"They pumped your stomach full of air."
Oddly, I didn't question her assertion.
They pumped me full of air from mouth to asshole, actually. Hilarity Ensued.
Kombucha, Greek Yogurt, Russian Yogurt, French Yogurt, All The World's Yogurts as well as a whole lot of Quaker Oats, that did me up right.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Sunday March 10 2019, @12:43AM
My favorite part about kombucha is that it's not kombucha. Kombucha is a Japanese drink made with kelp (konbu means kelp and cha means tea). Western "kombucha" is just tea (made with tea leaves) with sugar added and then fermented. The only similarities are that they are both beverages.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Nuke on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:41AM (1 child)
Guy steals PCs from workplace. What will these rogues think of next?
Microsoft Surface Pros ....... perhaps as an IT expert he was doing his job and knew they's be better off without that shit.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday March 09 2019, @11:12AM
He was just doing his job -- they *do* say the biggest security threats are internal.
(Score: 1, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 09 2019, @11:57AM
Folks, look at the timing of these horrible thefts. This is part of the mess I inherited from Cheatin' Obama. John Kerry was in charge of that department when most of them happened. This is the same guy that did the very one-sided Iran Deal. And we stopped the thief very soon after I put Rex Tillerson in there. Rex, unfortunately, is dumb as a rock. But unlike Hillary, he's no crook. And he fired a TREMENDOUS number of bad (Obama) people from my State Department. The new broom sweeps clean, folks.
By the way, Microsoft Surface Pro is incredible. I'll tell you, it's a great choice in digital. We're talking PRIMO CYBER, the same cyber trusted by our National Football League. Possibly the only thing that Cheatin' O got right!