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- Damned Fucking Shit
- Edited by Access Denied
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- Issue #11
- Title: Computer Expert Accused of Damaging
- Firm's Records
- Date: 10/29/93
- By: Access Denied
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- Computer Expert Accused of Damaging Firm's Records
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- [This was taken from the Milwaukee Journal. Oct. 28, 1993]
- [All comments by Access Denied are in []s]
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- A young computer expert left a nasty parting gift the day he
- was fired from the W.H. Brady Co. in Glendale, a criminal complaint
- alleges.
- Knowing he was about to be canned, he programmed the computer
- on a time delay to wipe out the extensive air emissions files he
- had been working on, the complaint says. When he left the building
- at 2230 W. Florist Ave., the files were still there. But when
- supervisors checked the next day, they were nowhere to be found.
- Paul Brian Wehland, 22, of 3321 N. Oakland Ave., was charged
- Wednesday in Circuit Court under the state's misdemeanor computer
- crime statute. If convicted, he faces up to nine months in jail
- and a $10,000 fine.
-
- [I'll look around for the Wisconsin Statutes and publish them when
- I find them.]
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- Three times after police became involved in the case, Wehland
- called company officials and offered to retrieve the data if they
- agreed to drop charges the complaint says.
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- Another computer specialist was able to find much of the lost
- information, which the company is required to provide on a regular
- basis to state and federal environmental agencies. The company has
- suffered a $25,000 loss because of the piracy, the complaint says.
-
- [PIRACY?!?!? Sure. Piracy... I sure wish these reporters would
- actually LEARN something about computer "crime" before they start
- to write about it. Sheesh.]
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- W.H. Bradey Co. manufactures and markets magnetic tape and a
- wide variety of name plates, labels, signs and other industrial
- identification products.
-
- According to the complaint:
- Wehland is a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
- He was hired by Brady in December 1991 to write a program and input
- data regarding the company's air emissions and compliance with the
- Clear Air Act.
- On Sept. 28, Wehland's supervisor caught him playing computer
- games at work and later loading information from an electronic
- bulletin board into the company's computer.
-
- [Wonder what BBS... probably Exec-PC (A HUGE PD/SW BBS in 414 for
- all you guys who don't know... 250+ lines... 36+ GB. Pretty big)
- or something. Or maybe he's actually some big H/P guy and it was
- from my BBS.... nah.]
-
- Fearing he would be fired, Wehland quit the next day, but was
- given his job back on Oct. 5 after he apologized. Two days later
- his supervisor caught him writing a resume cover letter on the
- computer on company time.
- During the 30 minutes it took the supervisor to speak to a
- colleague about the problem and return to fire him, Wehland
- programmed the computer to hide the data, he admitted to police.
- He would not say why he did it.
-
- [Hmmm... why'd he do it? Please, I won't even explain why. Too
- much typing time. Anyway, if you're going to destroy data, don't
- be so blunt about it. Common sense will tell you that.]
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