Isn't America's national security the greatest, or what?
Case in point......two things that
definitely don't go together, drugs and nuclear secrets.
When police officers with the Los Alamos County Police Dept. went to the Royal Crest Trailer Park, they were told there was a domestic dispute at one of the residences, where the two inhabitants were throwing rocks and arguing in one of the trailers. (For the record, the park just happens to be located next to Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the U.S.'s two nuclear weapons design facilities.......). When the police arrived, they expected they'd have to break up a domestic dispute. Instead......they ended up finding two things of interest: crystal meth(and the makings of a meth lab......
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.........and three computer thumb drives........small storage devices that plug into a computer's USB port for the purpose of uploading/downloading information and data. Only these possesed over 400 pages worth of info downloaded from Los Alamos computers, many of which contained information on U.S. nuclear weapons designs.
Apparently, one of the two individuals they arrested
worked at Los Alamos for a defense contractor, and she had been assigned the job of downloading archival info, digitizing it, then transferring the data to modern, super-secret computer databases......only she never got around to it, instead taking the data home with her because "she was under deadline pressure and intended to destroy them at a later date." Now, I know what you're thinking....how did it happen?
For starters, the woman in question, despite having just a high school diploma, was given security clearances for both accessing nuclear weapons designs AND the security codes needed to override the locks on said weapons. In addition, she was supposed to work with a partner from the same firm, but budgetary concerns meant that she worked alone in areas that, in military jargon, are "no-lone zones"(areas requiring a
minimum of two people at that location....think missile silos for the seriousness factor). On top of that, there are, you'd think, multiple layers of security around the computers she used in her work and everyone who enters these "no-lone zones" are supposed to be searched, yet somehow she managed to download all that info onto those thumb drives, make it past security without being searched........like I said at the top, isn't our national security the greatest OR what??
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