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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because a person 8000 miles away can't wipe down anything so the place has to be dirty

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Because you don't want to leave fingerprints behind when you unplug something on camera.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh sorry, I didn’t mean you, not-so-secret agent man

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not illegal to unplug something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Actually, it could be. That could be considered vandalism (you're intentionally making unauthorized modifications to equipment to prevent it from working as expected) which is illegal.

But this is New York, so who knows if they would even enforce that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, at worst, it would be criminal mischief. Criminal mischief with $0 in property damage…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So people can just unplug cables at data centers because it's "$0 property damage criminal mischief"?

Come on, their lawyers would (successfully) argue that they experienced loss of revenue for any amount of time their remote cashier system was not connected and operational...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

No, “people” cannot even enter a data center without walking through multiple security man traps and providing identification that gets kept at the desk while inside. A data center is not a sandwich shop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They can just plug it back in. It'll be ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I guess if you can just plug it back in, that just invalidates the downtime that was caused or data being lost.

Being able to undo vandalism doesn't make it suddenly not vandalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It’s not vandalism. Vandalism is destruction of property (physically destroying it). Unplugging something that was designed to be unplugged is absolutely not vandalism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You’re significantly overestimating the police response to a non-vandalism.

Edit: In nyc, they don’t even finger print for an actual vandalism…

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They use fingerprints for murder cases, not camera unplugging cases.

Also, this lady now has a job and you’re talking about ruining her job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I want to upvote the first half of this and downvote the second half.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Man wtf is this shit jfc..