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PHOENIX, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- An Arizona school district employee resigned after officials accused him of using district computers to search for extraterrestrial life, authorities said.
Brad Niesluchowski, information technology chief for the Higley Unified School District, allegedly downloaded a copy of a University of California-Berkeley program called "SETI@home" to every computer in the school district, The Arizona Republic reported Wednesday.
The software allows individual computer users to scan data and signals from radio telescopes to look for signals from outer space, the newspaper said.
District officials say they never agreed to the use of the program, which turns on and runs whenever a computer is idle.
During a search of Niesluchowski's home, police said they found 18 computers allegedly stolen from the district, the Republic reported.
Higley officials estimate damages, energy usage and equipment losses linked to Niesluchowski could top $1.2 million.
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