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Missing Top Secret Disks Actually Just A Computer Bug
from the whoooops dept
Remember those well publicized "missing" top secret hard drives from Los Alamos? The same missing drives that had the FBI threatening to arrest a novelty store owner? Turns out they might not have been missing after all. In fact, the entire mess is being chalked up to a computer glitch in their inventory system that declared a "false positive" suggesting the drivers were missing when they weren't. You would think, given the seriousness of such a situation that any inventory system would have some sort of immediate manual method for checking on the actual drives the second the system sounds the "uh oh, something's missing" alarm. Apparently not. Of course, this brings up the second question. If the drives have really been safely at home this whole time, why didn't anyone bother to check there in the first place?
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What about scary false negatives?
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Re: What about scary false negatives?
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serial numbers?
It sounds like the author of the article didn't bother asking any of these questions.
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think a little harder
It's the worst-case inventory problem -- how do you prove that something listed in your inventory records never existed?
The only thing you can complain about how the heck does a false record get accidentally created in the first place? Well, I'm sure with a little work you can figure out countless scenarios: software glitch, user clicking twice, etc.
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