The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
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HN comment orderAuthor of the article here. Since I first published this blog post I was getting messages from people asking how it ended. Sadly it's pretty anticlimactic as the owner of the place had a meeting with the guy who put the Pi there (without me as he didn't want the Pi-dropper to feel ambushed) and in the end decided not to escalate it to legal and just basically told him to pack his things and get out. So no legal…
I saw the title and instantly thought of the "Load bearing mac mini" at Twitter. In our server closet there was a mac mini sitting on another rack mounted server and plugged directly into a switch. IT found it, asked around and nobody knew what it was, so they unpugged it. Immediately the whole of engineering and support were basically offline. Despite the thing looking suspicious as possible, I had set this thing up as an employee a year before…
Original discussion from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919129
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-03 | How I found the home address of the culprit who put a RaspberryPi in our Network | geek_at | 3 | 3 |
| 2022-01-17 | The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)First breakout · Best thread | BayAreaEscapee | 799 | 262 |
| 2023-10-04 | The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019) | gslin | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-01-08 | The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)Latest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 329 | 139 |