What this NCO did was not dumb; it was calculated and intentional violations of multiple rules and regulations they (and the others involved) knew very well. Then they tried to cover it up when people started asking questions.
Absolutely no sympathy for them in my book. These are supposed to be the leaders other enlisted look to emulate.
Of course they won’t be; somebody has to debug all the crap AI writes.
Try this: DSL Linux
I once abused an SMTP relay (my own) by emailing Novell a 400+ MB memory dump. Their FTP site kept timing out.
After all that, and them swearing they had to have it, the OS team said “Nope, we’re not going to look at it”. Guess how I feel about Novell after that?
This was in the mid-90’s.
I’ve had those things before. But there is maintenance and power to factor in; so not entirely free.
Rejects from the plane assembly line. Now that’s scary!
Far more than I am proud to say, far more.