Nah, I supply a lot of non-profits with computers, the fedguv doesn’t care.
The lab’s system got totally owned by somebody that some three-letter agency was interested in, so they came and took the server away, and then “unhappened” the incident (“Hello, FBI, when are you going to finish with our server and give it back?” “Sorry, we never heard of your server, nor did we ever visit your facility. Those must have been fake FBI credentials.”).
So I got them a new server with a more up-to-date OS and helped them restore their data to it, without restoring the compromised OS and filesystems. I figure the lab got off rather lightly, since nobody was arrested or imprisoned.
They certainly aren’t #1 on the list of audition participants; but the concept of ‘Force Protection’ does afford them a fair amount of flexibility in situations with at least a vague connection to potential risk to DoD assets, personnel, families of, etc.
A night of thought leads me to think a reed switch in the case and a magnet in the desk could be sufficient to cut power, and supremely non-obvious. Just don’t bump the desk during intense gaming sessions.
It’s actually a Shakespearean tragedy and/or a god-awful straight-to-DVD comedy wherein the munchies bring them together; but the law threatens to tear them apart… Will they learn to embrace their common ground; or is someone going away on possession with intent charges?
