Dedicating your spare resources to look for extraterrestrial life or cures for diseases are something most of us do with pleasure. Unfortunately things can go horribly wrong when the eagerness to help goes out of hand. From being the largest contributor to SETI@Home Brad Niesluchowski, also known as NEZ at SETI, has lost his job as the network administrator and cost a whole school district additional bills worth up to $1.6 million.
It was revealed that Brad Niesluchowski, in an attempt to raise the stakes in the hunt for alien life, installed SETI@home on most of the computers in the Higley Unified School District.
He didn’t stop there though, but he purchased more computers, specifically for SETI, and charged the school district, while the school network was down to it knees with work Niesluchowski had 18 of the school district’s computers back at home for increasing his contribution to the project.
He was known by the alias “NEZ” and was SETI’s most active volunteer explorers for intelligent life, scoring more than 575 million “credits” – hours of data searching in nine years of participation.
The police has found traces of Niesluchowski’s obsession of SETI at previous employers who now has plenty of time to look for aliens after losing his job with the Higley Unified School District .
