University of Twente NOC Fire Arson 343
Lars writes "A 26-year old man from Hengelo has admitted to deliberately setting fire to the Network Operations Centre of University of Twente, last Wednesday. The fire gutted two wings of the building and devastated one of the fastest networks in Europe.
The arsonist is an employee of the University, which must come as quite a shock to those involved.
The University released a short statement to the press.
It mentions that the total damage caused is roughly 40-50 million euros (about the same in dollars) and that the guy was caught last Friday, when he tried to set fire to one of the faculty buildings."
Umm... (Score:4, Interesting)
Security.debian.org / Disaster recovery (Score:5, Interesting)
Brings up a good point in disaster recovery: How many organizations have machines at various places that they can't recover from a total loss?
Others were affected too (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Three stories on this and still, WE DON'T CARE (Score:1, Interesting)
Quite frankly, NO (Score:1, Interesting)
Stony Brook Hired an Arsonist (Score:2, Interesting)
The worst part was he burnt down the warehouse with toilet paper and lightbulbs. The insurance company refused to pay, because the school didn't perform even a basic background check which would have given away the man's background.
The worst part was taking exams in rooms to dark to power the solar-powered calculators. Some professors resorted to carrying lightbulbs from room to room.
The Real Enemy... (Score:5, Interesting)
If I don't post again before Thanksgiving, Happy Turkey day ya'll.
University is also to blame (Score:5, Interesting)
Though the arsonist takes a huge part of the blame, i think the university also made some faults. Why put your servers in a building that burns that well? If you have so much expensive equipment, you should consider everything, including arson! A few days ago they were happy that no asbestos was released because it was removed shortly ago. But isn't asbestos a fire retarder??
Anyhow this fire is a huge problem for the university. When i was studying there 2 years ago, their biggest trouble was the financing of new buildings. They were supposed to build a new combined building for Physics, Electronics and Chemistry. When the drawings were almost finished they had to scap the whole thing. Right now several buildings are way beyond their lifetime and could technically be shut down to regulations any moment. Most buildings are already extended with temporary containers (Portacabins). And now this..... If they were a company this would certainly be their bankruptcy.
Fire Code (Score:3, Interesting)
Security (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I guess.... (Score:5, Interesting)
My name is Dam Backer. I am from The Netherlands and I switched to the US 6 years ago.
(all of the above might not be perfectly accurate, but it schetches an idea of the philosophy of the Dutch punishment system)
Probably sectionable... (Score:4, Interesting)
When I was at primary school in Colchester(UK) there was a spate of school fires in my area which the police believed to be arson. They got extremely excited when they realised that the headmaster(principal) of my school had visited each of the schools just before the fires. Obviously they questioned him quite closely but then couldn't find any evidence against him, so they started secret surveillance on his movements.
A couple of days into the surveillance, my school got burnt down completely and what the police saw was another teacher torching the school. Apparently this guy had flipped and he was trying to assasinate the headmaster by burning down any buildings that he visited. Not really the most efficient way of taking someone out, but that's madness for you.
I'm pretty sure he was judged to be clinically insane and sent away pretty much permanently....