Re: Biggest Incident This Week: Missing Hard Drives at Los Alamos

[nazgul () SOMEWHERE COM (Kee Hinckley)]

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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.
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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.

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