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Computer Crash Wipes Out Years of Air Force Investigation Records
Defense One ^ | 13 June 2016 | Patrick Tucker

Posted on 06/15/2016 7:58:41 AM PDT by Lorianne

The U.S. Air Force has lost records concerning 100,000 investigations into everything from workplace disputes to fraud.

A database that hosts files from the Air Force’s inspector general and legislative liaison divisions became corrupted last month, destroying data created between 2004 and now, service officials said. Neither the Air Force nor Lockheed Martin, the defense firm that runs the database, could say why it became corrupted or whether they’ll be able to recover the information.

Lockheed tried to recover the information for two weeks before notifying the Air Force, according to a service statement.

The Air Force has begun asking for assistance from cybersecurity professionals at the Pentagon as well as from private contractors.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: airforce; coverup; cyberwar; cyberwarfare; lockheed; lockheedmartin; obamasfault; oops; usaf
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To: Lorianne; Old Sarge; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Art in Idaho; Candor7; easternsky; EnigmaticAnomaly; ...

PING!!!

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Thanks, Lorianne


41 posted on 06/15/2016 8:20:26 AM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: BlessedBeGod

“No backups? How freaking incompetent.”

Everybody does “backups”.

How many actually try doing a restore?

Are you currently running on a system you restored from backup?

If not, you’ve never actually done a full test of your recovery procedures.

And that means you don’t actually have a backup system.


42 posted on 06/15/2016 8:21:55 AM PDT by jdege
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To: commish

Thanks for your EXPERT input/info, on this. (And, thank you for your service.)

I agree....does not pass smell test.


43 posted on 06/15/2016 8:22:39 AM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: piasa

wow, thanks for that


44 posted on 06/15/2016 8:24:37 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

To: Covenantor; Tijeras_Slim; molson209; who_would_fardels_bear

This is the third interesting story I’ve seen out of Lockheed’s skunkworks in the last year.

The first was the development of a desalination membrane they’ve trademarked perforene. This will collapse the need for energy for desalination—which represents roughly 1/3 of the costs of desalination. The membrane needs more work. So they need more smart young engineers to do the job.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2350985-lockheed-martins-newest-innovation-isnt-what-you-expect
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/ms2/documents/Perforene-datasheet.pdf

The second big announcement from the skunkworks was that the skunkworks was working on a nuclear fusion device that they hope to have prototyped in 5 years. That’s going to need more young guns to do the grunt work.
http://aviationweek.com/technology/skunk-works-reveals-compact-fusion-reactor-details
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html

The big technological revolutions that will make the 21st century successful—and push vast treasures to their developers — involve desalination cheap enough for agriculture and energy at least 1/2-1/4 the cost of current cheapest coal.

Lockheed is aiming right. Whether they hit the mark remains to be seen.

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45 posted on 06/15/2016 8:26:03 AM PDT by piasa
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To: I want the USA back

that’s a good point, however still suspicious


46 posted on 06/15/2016 8:26:09 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: DUMBGRUNT

We once experienced a hardware failure that resulted in the destruction of some data. Fortunately the backups were able to restore nearly everything. Of course this was a private company where people were held accountable.


47 posted on 06/15/2016 8:28:38 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

And once a month we test restoring those backups of backups just to make sure we can if we need to. What incompetent boobs. Jail time should follow.


48 posted on 06/15/2016 8:31:53 AM PDT by Syntyr (Happiness is two at low eight!)
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To: Lorianne

Now you know why “Military Intelligence” is an oxymoron.


49 posted on 06/15/2016 8:32:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

I have better backups for my personal photos and files than Obama’s minions claim to have for anything. This was supposed to be the United States Air Force, not some amateur group like Hillary’s team.

Note: I don’t believe these or Hillary’s lost files claims any more than I believe the “cleaning my gun” excuses for most shootings reported as accidental.


50 posted on 06/15/2016 8:35:22 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lorianne

No back-ups? Seriously?


51 posted on 06/15/2016 8:38:05 AM PDT by KosmicKitty
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More total BS.


52 posted on 06/15/2016 8:44:35 AM PDT by Jenny217
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To: Lorianne

I worked in data processing for 30 years, never saw a situation where large amounts of data were actually lost. About the worst was where we had to go back two or three days and restore data from there. We ran programs to re-insert the newer data and lost nothing permanently. The idea that you lose over a decades worth of data is not believable.


53 posted on 06/15/2016 8:45:08 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Starboard

You backup every week or every month and keep at least a years worth of backups. This sounds intentional.


54 posted on 06/15/2016 8:45:41 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: I want the USA back

Ideally the back-up is rotated to become the active file and the backed-up file is stored. Then if there is corruption in the back-up (now active) file, it will be known immediately and corrected.


55 posted on 06/15/2016 8:45:48 AM PDT by BigOrangeI (When did we run out of tar and feathers ??)
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To: Lorianne

NO way they didn’t have backup. We are fed Bovine scatology constantly.


56 posted on 06/15/2016 8:48:26 AM PDT by IC Ken
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To: BlessedBeGod
"No backups? How freaking incompetent."

If not convenient.

57 posted on 06/15/2016 8:49:17 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: BlessedBeGod
No backups? How freaking incompetent.

How freaking convenient. There should be backup drives and/or tapes off-line sitting in locked, environmentally controlled storage.

58 posted on 06/15/2016 8:50:59 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Jim 0216

They aren’t stupid...they are criminal. Maybe they are both.


59 posted on 06/15/2016 8:51:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Lorianne

No backups? Seriously? That is beyond believable. I can see losing a few weeks of recent data, but not years of data. This is deliberate.


60 posted on 06/15/2016 9:00:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is an armed occupation force that taxes the inhabitants to reward its supporters.)
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