Fresh Security Breaches At Los Alamos

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 25, 2007 @11:56PM from the when-will-they-ever-learn dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "MSNBC is carrying Newsweek reporting on two new security breaches at Los Alamos. Both of these latest incidents were 'human error' on the part of employees. In one, an e-mail containing classified material was sent over the open Internet rather than through the secure defense network. In the other incident, an employee took his lab laptop on vacation to Ireland, where it was stolen out of his hotel room. The machine reportedly contained government documents of a sensitive nature."

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Re:Human element is the greatest danger by Anonymous Coward · 2007-06-26 01:42 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Oh no! The fault is of all foreign grad students working late just to intercept those e-mails... I knew the FBI was behind some important clues!

For real, now, is this incident going to produce another display of paranoia in the US and remove more privileges to foreigns? Because of course somebody has to pay for their mistakes, and it's much better if it's foreign so they can keep feeding that xenophobia.