Posted on 02/12/2009 7:55:58 AM PST by shielagolden
WASHINGTON (AP) The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 69 computers, including at least a dozen that were stolen last year, a lab spokesman said. No classified information has been lost, spokesman Kevin Roark said.
The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration that said 67 computers were missing, including 13 that were lost or stolen in past 12 months.
Roark initially confirmed those figures, but later updated them. He said a total of 80 computers were lost or stolen in 2008, but 11 were recovered.
The lab was initiating a monthlong inventory to account for every computer, Roark said. The computers were a cybersecurity issue because they may contain personal information like names and addresses, but they did not contain any classified information, he said.
Also missing are three computers that were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to the memo and an e-mail from a senior lab manager.
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1 or 2, but 67?????????
Since most thieves are basically lazy and stupid, yes.
“a lab spokesman said. No classified information has been lost, spokesman Kevin Roark said”
and how exactly would they know that ? Were all the computers checked out by the IT dept with the approval that they now can be lost or stolen without a problem for security?
Lost U.S. Weapons May Be Going to Taliban, GAO Says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/11/AR2009021103281.html?wprss=rss_world
cover-up
Hillary took them with to meeting w/ Chi-com’s.....they info was getting old from the last Clinton giveaway...for campaign finance money...
-PJ
I recall hearing of this alot during the Clinton years.
Until you’ve worked for a government organization that has a dozen different buildings and constant broke hardware, you don’t realize the issues of accountability. Once you get past three hundred computers...the odds of having one hundred accountability is totally lost.
My government boss finally adios to CPU’s and we are going to thin client boxes. At around $300 and no hard drive onboard...its not a security matter anymore. And it doesn’t become personalized anymore when someone moves from office to office every six months (we had huge issues with people demanding to move their hardware from building to building).
Foreign scientist are allowed in Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory ,United Nations scientist
.... so bright I can see the keyboard characters even with my eyes shut. Talk about coolio!
If they're missing, how would he know this for sure?
The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight
Pssst!
Look behind the Xerox machine!
Right there next to the missing tapes!
Zeus´ beard! You aren´t kidding! :(
got it. didnt know that
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