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2026-04-25 20:16 UTC
@christineburns@mastodon.green @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @susankayequinn@wandering.shop Also railway signaling tech these days is switching over to fiber-optic, which is valueless to the scrap metal market.
(But data center kit is much more specialised than it used to be: back in the 90s organized gangs used to loot the RAM from office computers in London business parks, exfiltrating it via the post room, leaving just enough in each PC to let them boot so it wouldn't be detected until the morning post had gone out ...)
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@christineburns@mastodon.green 2026-04-26 03:54
@cstross@wandering.shop @AlisonW@fedimon.uk @susankayequinn@wandering.shop Back in 1990/1 I had a client whose offices on a midlands business park were done over like that. They had huge rolling steel shutters on all the downstairs windows and doors but the thieves brought along a hydraulic jack to force their way in by brute force. They went through all the Dell PCs in the training rooms, taking just the ram.