[Justa]

Sounds like the AF decided to classify it, unbeknown to NASA.

I know you don’t believe your home computer and offline devices are outside the scope of compliance enforcement. It’s specified in the clearance paperwork, employment paperwork, security paperwork and perhaps even your work logon screen. Where I work the sso told us “we monitor all your private communications and data -everything.

[StolarStorm]

I suspect you are correct. If they had told me, I would have given them the drives. No mess, no fuss. I'm surprised they never talked to me about it. If they classified it quietly... understandable. My father had an interesting role before he retired and my uncle was high level FBI, so I was already under some checks.

I was pretty damn impressed with them for finding the files, removing them while leaving the file name in the directory table and so forth. Professionals.