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Have Terabytes of Enron Data Quietly Gone Missing? (muckrock.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz quotes MuckRock: Government investigations into California's electricity shortage, ultimately determined to be caused by intentional market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices by the now infamous Enron Corporation, resulted in terabytes of information being collected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This included several extremely large databases, some of which had nearly 200 million rows of data, including Enron's bidding and price processes, their trading and risk management systems, emails, audio recordings, and nearly 100,000 additional documents. That information has quietly disappeared, and not even its custodians seem to know why.
The web page where a defense contractor hosts the data has been down since 2013, and after a one-month wait they replied to a request by stating the data was "under review" and "currently not accessible," adding that it might never be available again. And while a U.S. government site also claims they offer a trio of datasets on CD, that agency "has not responded to repeated requests for these datasets sent over the past two months."
The site also instructs visitors to email Lockheed Martin, who maintains some of the data -- but the provided email address bounces.
The web page where a defense contractor hosts the data has been down since 2013, and after a one-month wait they replied to a request by stating the data was "under review" and "currently not accessible," adding that it might never be available again. And while a U.S. government site also claims they offer a trio of datasets on CD, that agency "has not responded to repeated requests for these datasets sent over the past two months."
The site also instructs visitors to email Lockheed Martin, who maintains some of the data -- but the provided email address bounces.
What difference does it make at this point? The case is closed, the company is gone, people have gone to jail. It's completely irrelevant today. There are also plenty of public records of the trials if anyone wants to know the details.
Like he never had deals with Russia, lol. What a dumb traitor.
What difference does it make at this point? The case is closed, the company is gone, people have gone to jail. It's completely irrelevant today. There are also plenty of public records of the trials if anyone wants to know the details.
It may be due to the upcoming Mueller report and Sidney Powell, who wrote an expose book a couple of years back about the FBI.
She was recently interviewed on Mark Levin's show, and has some very condemnatory information about Mueller, some people on Mueller's team, and the FBI in general.
(NB: Sydney Powell is a former federal prosecutor, worked at the DOJ for 10 years, and lead counsel in over 500 federal appeals. Highly credible, whose information can't be dismissed out of hand.)
The Enron data might have been deleted because it might have been used to prove/disprove some of Sidney Powell's accusations.
Otherwise we could have blamed this on Trump!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
There's no reason for you to tapdance in defense of a traitor, faggot. Trump hangs either way, it's all over now. Mueller has his entire family on a leash.
Because they have a large number of employees with secret and above classifications. If you get a contract and then have to hire people, it can take about 20-30 months just to get a decent amount of people through the process.
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PG&E among others are soon to be dealing with many trials surrounding various California wildfires they caused.
The timing of noticing this data loss could be that evidence of power companies' neglect can be found in decades old Enron docs.
employees with secret and above classifications
What is it about Enron and/or PG&E that require secret classification?
Other than the details of their nuclear operations, most of what goes on can be handled by their room-temperature IQ PHBs.
Have gnu, will travel.
Governments typically require some classification for their work even if it's completely unnecessary for the job at hand. Governments also tend to have a lot of cross-talk and you suddenly sit in a meeting that you should have classifications for.
This is about governments picking LM over other contractors, LM is a safe choice, even if the mission changes.
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I wish I wasn't under a NDA, because I could speak truth to some really bad issues. Unless I'm under subpoena, I can't say any more.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I'm so used to smelling rat when it comes to corporations and the government and the connections and overseas accounts. Lately I've been smelling hundreds of rats.
The biggest rat so far was when, the day before 9/11, Rumsfeld reported $2.3 trillion missing at the DoD. Neatly done.
I'm beginning to suspect it's possible there are thousands of rats like this Enron rat stuffed into thousands of closets. Once the news has faded away, we forget. Too bad that isn't impossible.
"You must try to forget all you have learned. You must begin to dream." -- Sherwood Anderson
That's obviously a conspiracy theory or something. /s
Obviously the Muller is a perfect guy, and none of his prior enron cases weren't thrown out because he was inventing evidence of crimes and ended up being lambasted by the appeals court for it.
Om, nomnomnom...
Everybody on slashdot knows now. Does anybody else matter?
Datasets are usually covered in any introductory course.
Given how much Enron was cooking the books (the scandal destroyed Enron's accounting firm), you can find out far more about Enron did by looking at their public records.