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This seems to be less about how a baby saved the day, and more about how an employee exfiltrated data from her employer. As a cybersecurity guy at a large financial institution, I wonder what Pixar’s policy was about the matter then, and what impact it had on the same policy today.

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From what I recall from another telling of the story Pixar was the one who set her up with a home computer & storage system for that purpose - since the storage and computing power needed was higher than what most people would have at home - but I could be misremembering

You're on the right track. As told in the Next Web story, the workstation in question was a Silicon Graphics Octane or there abouts. These were incredibly expensive and were provided by the company. In addition, according to the story, they were the ones who set up the file sync for her to be able to work from home.

LGR and RMC have both done videos on the SGI Octane and are worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHsA8iq4N0s

Edit: It was Retro Man Cave, not Adrian's Digital Basement as originally written.

The article is wrong, it wasn't her 'personal computer' it was a Pixar Workstation that was at her home, not the same thing.

Why this got downvoted a bit is beyond me, I’ll never understand hn.

Oren, who worked at Pixar recounts the story, and said “She has an SGI machine (Indigo? Indigo 2?) Those were the same machines we had at all our desktops to run the animation system and work on the film, which is what she was doing. Yes, it was against the rules, but we did it anyway, and it saved the movie in the end.”

https://www.quora.com/Did-Pixar-accidentally-delete-Toy-Stor...

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