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Something is seriously strange here. I work at NASA as a system administrator. That system should not still have the asset tag attached. Those are removed when
by rootbear 9y ago
Something is seriously strange here. I work at NASA as a system administrator. That system should not still have the asset tag attached. Those are removed when an item goes through excess. Also, NO hard drives are to leave NASA with any data on them. I wipe all hard drives before I excess a system and I think the inventory people do it again. It's possible that this system was disposed of before that rule went into effect but that seems unlikely. I was able to zoom in on the photo on Ebay and get the asset tag number. That item is not in the asset database any longer, so it seems to have been legitimately excessed, and isn't stolen, but still, this is very odd.
- matheweis 9y agoI worked for a few years at a federal research facility that had some loaner equipment from NASA/JPL tied to the mars rover projects. It only takes one mistake by the intern asked to surplus the pile of old junk on the shelf who doesn’t recognize it for what it is...