Stealing Is Bad, But Stealing A NASA Laptop Full Of Porn & Getting Caught Is Funny
Peter Donnell / 12 years ago
Today just seems like it’s going to be one of those days, first a law suit over internet cat memes and now we hear that a man has been arrested for stealing porn from NASA, but of course it’s not as simple as that, so let’s try explain this one better.
In what initially appeared to be a case of Chinese espionage, with a NASA laptop stolen and taken on a plane to China in the hands of Bo Jiang as FBI agents boarded the plane to arrest the man in question. Bo Jiang is a doctorate in electrical engineering and until recently he was a contractor for NASA at their Langely Research Center.
Unfortunately for Bo Jiang he lost his contract after Congressman, Frank Wolf claimed that some of the Chinese engineers at NASA were posing a security risk. Unfortunately for Jian he had a NASA owned laptop with him and was on his way back to China.
Of course all the business with Congressman Frank Wolf, the FBI, the loss of his job and no doubt a few other “bad luck Brian” kind of moment led up to his arrest and at best Jiang has only broken NASA policies by carrying the laptop with him as it turned out to contain no sensitive material as Jiang didn’t have that kind of clearance for project at Langley.
Unfortunately for Jiang, his back luck didn’t end there as investigators found the laptop was loaded with pornography and pirated movies, adding insult to his injury of loosing his job, he was simply on his way home and wanted to take his erm… “entertainment” home with him.
I guess you could say he’s going to get off lightly, he will have to plead guilty, but he’ll have to live with the embarrassment of the FBI finding his digital stash.
