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
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
??? 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.
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.
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
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
??? 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.
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.