Re: Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 06:03,  <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:48:46 EDT, Jeffrey Walton said:
>
> > Does the Darwin Awards have a category for dumb computer related decisions?
>
> Hmm.. for computer related ones? Good question.
>
> The Darwin Awards are for those who remove themselves from the gene pool in
> *spectacular* ways.  They disallow entrants for reasons of mental disease or
> defect-- so failing to reproduce just because you're a troll living in your
> parent's basement loses twice - it's commonplace, not spectacular, and
> it usually isn't a result of a conscious decision you made.
>
> Having said that. I suppose it *is* possible.  Consider the (hiopefully
> hypothetical) example of an expreme overclocker who does something predictably
> stupid and ends up with a lapful of liquid nitrogen and a case of severe
> frostbite.  Gives a whole new meaing to "shatter attack" ;)
>
> Yeah, *that* would get a Darwin. ;)

I have heard rumors of an instance that would qualify:

Supposedly there was a fellow who knew he was under police
surveillance for bad computing behavior of some sort or another, and
had prepared for a raid by outfitting his residence with video
cameras, and his computer with a kill switch.

Little did he know that he was more literal than expected. He had
packed the computer case full of thermite, rather than simply putting
an ounce or three on top of the hard drive.

He was next to the computer when noticed a raid descending, and he hit
the kill switch. There wasn't much left of the room he was in...

I've not been able to verify this story, but it does come from a
source that I consider reliable.

Kurt

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