It may be standard practice in Brazil to issue guards with guns to prevent wholesale theft of hardware ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182463 http://news.

It may be standard practice in Brazil to issue guards with guns to prevent wholesale theft of hardware ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182463 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182463 ). Stolen hardware isn't worth much but the cost to replace it could be millions.