Darn, I was hoping it was this kind of disk
Posted on 07/16/2004 6:45:10 PM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
N.M. Lab Finds Missing Classified Disk
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A classified floppy disk reported missing from a government nuclear weapons lab was found Friday, but officials were tight-lipped about details surrounding the incident.
The disk was listed as missing during a June 30 inventory at Sandia National Laboratories. The lab said the floppy disk came from a military organization.
"The disk was always under the control of individuals authorized to possess it," said Ron Detry, Sandia's vice president of integrated security and chief security officer.
Detry cited a procedural error in the disk's transfer between lab organizations, but lab officials declined to comment on where the disk was found or any other details.
"We are relieved the disk has been found. But in my mind, the nature of the near miss of this recent incident is far too close for comfort," Sandia Director C. Paul Robinson said. "We must find better ways and procedures for ensuring the protection of such material."
Sandia officials notified the Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration about the disk.
Robinson said he has asked Detry to lead a task force to improve the management of classified electronic information and removable media.
The incident at Sandia came on the heels of another security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where two items identified only as removable data storage devices with classified information turned up missing during a special inventory.
Ping everyone you can before the mod moves the story to chat!
Please note that this is *not* about the Los Alamos National Lab problem... this is a completely different problem.
Oh... THAT classified disk! Hilary must have tiptoed in with it. Seems she forgot she had let the Chikoms borry it.
The Chinese better pay the DNC what they owe them for the copy of that disc.
I'm confused....is it the "University of California" problem?
YUP< my feelings exactly some copy was made< original returned>
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Darn, I was hoping it was this kind of disk
This article is about Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM (run by Lockheed-Martin). Los Alamos Nat'l Labs is in Los Alamos, NM and run by Univ of Calif.
I found this while scrolling and after your mail. I love it.
NO!!!
I don't think this incident has even made the news, only the incident in Los Alamos where they shutdown the entire Lab.
That is extraordinary!
So far, the investigators have learned via E-mail that they are now qualified to recieve 120 free weeks of AOL.
I knew it.
Someone left them in the bathroom.
I guess M/Moore finished with it so they say it here.What a joke this secret lab has become.
After reading article after article about lab secrets going missing, I kept wondering about our leaders and why nothing was ever done about it. On Lou Dobbs..CNNfn...I finally got the answers! It turns out that the University of California oversees the Lab and has since 1940! No wonder the thing is a fiasco. Now the only question I have is why isn't someone appointing someone else to oversee the Lab?
What do ya' want to bet it's already been copied and sent along?
There have been an awful lot of comments about the length of the contract of the University which runs the facility. Its almost like you can't fire them or terminate them. Even if there is a personality clash...they simply move the individual back over to the University for a couple of years, then bring them back to the lab.
Past time to get UC out of Los Alamos. As for the Sandia Labs, well..that's ANOTHER problem.
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