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Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos
From: nazgul () SOMEWHERE COM (Kee Hinckley)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 19:45:21 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 5:00 PM -0400 6/13/00, Dante Mercurio wrote:
Ok, everyone knows about the missing hard drives at Los Alamos. My question to the security community is this: If the data on the drives was so sensitive, why weren't the drives encrypted?
Quick, we've got to disarm this nuclear bomb. Damn, who's got the password to the disk? But seriously, the thought occurred to me as well. However I find their lack of a an access log more egregious. Tons of security, but no one keeping track of who actually took the disks. And access to the room required a password too, so it seems likely that whoever had that would also have the disk password. - -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere Consulting Group - Cyberspace Architects(rm) I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBOUgZIiZsPfdw+r2CEQIzQgCffTIYVph2q6sFZtoEtv9ravx1DhEAnjeY B7owmNVPISo0u2MJmYocoE+O =d01Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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- Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Dante Mercurio (Jun 13)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Joe Dark (Jun 14)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Benjamin Setnick (Jun 14)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Eric the Fruitbat (Jun 15)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Daniel K. Boyd (Jun 16)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Eric Johnson (Jun 16)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Pierre Vandevenne (Jun 16)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Ejovi Nuwere (Jun 16)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Eric the Fruitbat (Jun 15)
- Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos Kee Hinckley (Jun 14)
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