Finally, the attacker in this incident, not satisfied with getting the information just for the case at hand, wanted to establish a contact he could call on regularly. He might otherwise have been able to use a common ploy for the sympathy attack—"I spilled coffee on my keyboard." That was no good here, though, because a keyboard can be replaced in a day. Hence he used the story about somebody else using his computer, which he could reasonably string out for weeks: "Yep, I thought he'd have his own computer yesterday, but one came in and another guy pulled some kind of deal and got it instead. So this joker is still showing up in my cubicle." And so on.