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Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed

Posted by Zonk on from the colossal-ooops dept.

Hal9000_sn3 writes "Turns out that the investigations carried out at Los Angeles National Laboratory over a matter of stolen research were flawed...because the missing disks never existed. Kind of hard to defend against having lost something you allegedly had access to, if the thing never existed." From the article: "Eventually, four were fired for security breaches, one chose to resign under the threat of termination and seven others received various formal reprimands."

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  1. I lost my pants by Xeo+024 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, nevermind they never existed in the first place.

    1. Re:I lost my pants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      They lost the Los Alamos National Laboratory building, it was last seen in Los Angeles, but it may never have existed.

  2. Re:Did the fired workers make a mistake? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


    > For example, if they didn't properly sign out the data and disks that they were borrowing, then they would be responsible for a mistake like this even if they didn't lose anything.

    Failure to sign out for non-existing disks? I suppose we're all guilty of that.

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  3. Los Angeles National Laboratory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Silicone Valley? I never would have thought...

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  4. I too, have made this mistake! by stinkpad · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I was a gov.contractor with a high level clearance, we had to go through all kinds of security steps in the handling of classified docs... One day I had thought my PHB had lost his mind..... I was wrong, it never exsisted to begin with. We did not have to report it though, because it did not have anything to do with "intelligence".

  5. The Ghost of Joe McCarthy Called... by Radical+Rad · · Score: 2, Funny

    He said "I may have destroyed many innocent lives but at least I never claimed to have caught anyone. These guys are going to give witchhunting a bad name."

  6. Re:The obvious comparison by anthony_dipierro · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The Y2K problem never existed, but the draconion measures we took were justified."

  7. Re:Responsibility by Ian+Action · · Score: 2, Funny

    And don't forget: "Caution: Disks might not exis."

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  8. Special Schrodinger disks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, the disks has an equal chance of existing or not existing before the investigation was opened.