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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by readhn on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:00PM (#19148024)
What i find amusing is that he only asked for $100,000 to build the network. To risk his life and his entire family for 100K ... even in mexico this is not a lot of money it seems.

The number should have been closer to at least 5-10 million range depending on the size of the family - enough $ to get everyone out permanently to a safe place somewhere far far away on a short notice when things go bad. (similar to that breaking bad guy who makes people disappear when things go bad: permanent change of identity, relocation etc. even that movie guy charged 250K to make that happen.)

But perhaps this IT guy was made an offer he couldn't refuse...

Also, i cant believe that someone running multi-billion dollar empire was too cheap to pay for bullet proof security system. You get what you pay for.

p.s. clearly you can tell i watched too many narcos episodes and BB.

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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#19148333)
Right, so based upon repeated viewings of Breaking Bad and Narcos, you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by jerrysievert on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:54PM (#19148521)
> you feel you have the real world experience to understand the expected rate of an IT project in Mexico?

not OP, but a risk vs reward calculation should probably go into it ...

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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by readhn on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:31AM (#19154243)
The world is global. There is no "local" anymore especially in IT.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:59AM (#19154491)
You say that, but that would mean that a dev in Indian should be making the same as in Silicon valley, and the projects should all the cost the same.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by therealx on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:38PM (#19148856)
I haven't watched any of those shows but estimating those specs easily gets that high, esp when there's the risk
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by vzcx on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:50PM (#19148930)
There were likely ongoing payments beyond the lump 100k since it seemed there were employees tasked with managing the cartel's network and thus ongoing costs.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by excalibur on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:51PM (#19148941)
I read it as $100K in equipment costs for the network... I'm honestly not sure whether that's more or less ridiculous.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by BaldricksGhost on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:31PM (#19148331)
Plata o plomo.
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Re:El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown by readhn on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:29AM (#19154234)
I feel like that was the case here. Even though they said he was "recommended".
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