ILITGUY - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:The questions are interesting... (Score 3, Interesting) 543

by ILITGUY on Wednesday March 12 2008, @02:32PM (#22730820) Attached to: Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions

"Usually they're so far up the chain-of-command they're impossible to talk to and they're considered god-like to regular grunts (imagine your favorite famous celebrity or athlete x 100).

Really?? I worked IT on several bases, as an E-2 and E-3, and used to go into the base commanders' offices all the time, always a 1 or 2 star general where I was, and they talked to me like we were neighbors. They are not special. There are some that think they are, but that is the exception, not the rule. I set up A/V for many presentations, hell even for the Sec. of the AF, and they all talked to you like normal people.

ILITGuy

IT firm tracks down stolen computer 0

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on Saturday July 28 2007, @01:16AM

ILITGUY writes "An IT firm in Wood River, IL, Acropolis Technology Group, helped the police in Missouri track down a stolen laptop. From the article;
Acropolis Technology Group, an 11-year-old IT business management company with offices in Wood River, IL and Creve Coeur, MO, used an "alerting mechanism" in its software to help track a client's stolen computer. On July 13, a guy visited Powder Valley Nature Center, just outside of Kirkwood, and left the laptop in his car.
"Victim goes to park to do some walking and comes back to their car, and (their) laptop is missing," Detective Mike Bales of the Kirkwood Police Department said.
When the client contacted Acropolis about buying a new computer, an account manager said they would try to locate the missing laptop. With the help of HeliosVision, a software program installed in the computers of all Acropolis clients, the laptop was found. "We went and bought him a new computer, and two days later, (the original computer) was online," Acropolis IT management director Jim Sammons said.
Sammons watched as the computer thief surfed the Internet, checked MySpace, Facebook and e-mail, as well as shopped for car parts and watched pirated movies. HeliosVision allowed Sammons to view the person's actions as they happened, and he documented the information for police.
"I had as much data as (if) I was looking over (the person's) computer," he said. "We were able to get a ridiculous amount of data in a short amount of time.""