Hard Drive With Clinton-Era Data Missing From Nat'l Archives

CWmike writes "An external hard drive that's believed to contain nearly 1TB of data from the Clinton Administration is missing from the US National Archives and Recording Administration (NARA). The drive includes more than 100,000 Social Security numbers and home addresses of people who visited or worked at the White House. Among those whose information is on the list is one of then-Vice President Al Gore's three daughters. The drive also contained details on the security procedures used by the Secret Service at the White House, as well as event logs, social gathering logs, political records and other information from the Clinton administration. Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-Calif.) said the Archives was in the process of converting information from the drive to a digital records system when it apparently disappeared. The hard drive was apparently removed from a secure storage area to a workplace where at least 100 'badge-holders' had access to it, Issa noted."

What?

[Anonymous Coward]

There was a 1TB HDD in the Clinton administration? I knew it, he was a Terminator!

Hmm.

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or is "Clinton-era data" slang for "jizz"?

QUICK!!!!

[Vinegar Joe]

Somebody check Sandy Berger's underwear!!!

Whoops, my bad

[Anonymous Coward]

I just needed somewhere to store some more of my cigar porn collection.
-- Bill

Re:A "secure" area

[MichaelSmith]

The hard drive was apparently removed from a secure storage area...

Obviously not secure enough.

C'mon. There was a sign on the door saying "beware of the leopard".

Remember?

[arizwebfoot]

When 4 mg of ram was screamin?

Hmm....

[Locke2005]

home addresses of people who visited or worked at the White House. Gee, I can't imagine who would be interested in this information. After all, it's not like anybody in the White House at that time was a well-known philanderer with a brilliant but opportunistic wife who might want to track down some of his late-night "visitors", is it? Maybe it's just our new Secretary of State working on her enemies list. I'm not sure 1 TByte is enough to record all of the bimbos, but at least it's a start.

Re:Remember?

[Locke2005]

4 milligrams of ram isn't even enough to make a lamb sandwich, let alone scream.

Re:Incoming

[anonymousNR]

its probably them who took it on their way out

Hey...

[FlyingSquidStudios]

They should check the London Underground train system. I hear a lot of missing secret government data ends up there.

Re:Remember?

[camperdave]

It depends on where you inject it, I suppose.

Re:Remember?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, would somebody please mod this funny? :)

Re:Remember?

[TinFoilMan]

I guess where you put the 4 mg WOULD make the ram scream!

Re:Hmm....

[Chris Burke]

1 TB = Terra-Bimbo?

Re:What does this have to do with the Clinton Admi

[davidsyes]

Since the summary said the disk "is" missing, i was going to chime in (humourously) with "Whether it really IS missing depends on what the meaning of IS IS..."

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Also in missing data...

[Sponge Bath]

Audio of interview with Monica Lewinski.
WJ 'Sax' Clinton: Step a little closer and speak into the mike...

Re:QUICK!!!!

[Bemopolis]

GAAAH! You just blinded the eyes in my mind! MINDBLINDER!

Re:QUICK!!!!

[GrandpaLeaman]

Maybe it was pictures OF Sandy Berger's underwear!

Re:QUICK!!!!

[night_flyer]

His socks couldn't be reached for comment

eBay

[cstdenis]

Check eBay.

Re:Incoming

[cbiltcliffe]

How do you know, if the data's been lost?

Because there's no evidence of it, of course!!

Sandy Berger

[MacColossus]

Sandy Berger borrowed it. I'm sure he will return it soon with no revisions made. :-) http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/02/nation/na-berger2 [latimes.com]

Re:A "secure" area

[Thinboy00]

The hard drive was apparently removed from a secure storage area...

Obviously not secure enough.

C'mon. There was a sign on the door saying "beware of the leopard".

...At the bottom of a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory... In the basement, where the lights and stairs had gone out...

I'm not quite enough of a geek to quote it verbatim, though.

Re:Incoming

[darkpixel2k]

If it's .bmp files of everybody's fingerprints, it will also compress well.

Nope--it's one file. It's the .bmp of Monica Lewinski for her photo ID badge. It's a lot of pixels.

No, he didn't have relations with that hard drive.

[Neanderthal Ninny]

Also wag that finger on that dais.

Re:Incoming

[Rip Dick]

doosh

Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

The missing HDD is full of Bill's top-secret porn. No question about it.

Re:But...

[LaskoVortex]

Silly ciggieposeur, you forgot the <humor> tags and got your ass mod slapped.

Re:But...

[Chris Daniel]

... when ever I enter a classified area we are searched.

And when you exit, I hope ...

Re:But...

[Anonymous Coward]

But it's OK, because the data was encrypted, right? RIGHT?

Actually it was left on the 08:14 train from Clapham Junction to London Victoria by an Mi5 employee this morning.... You just can't get the staff anymore :(

Re:But...

[Anonymous Coward]

Meanwhile, a laptop containing credit card information was left on a train leaving Queensbury at 09:16, bound for Knightsbridge. Assuming standard rail speeds, will the two data breaches be able to be brought together?
For bonus points, identify the station where the two sets meet.

Re:What?

[SteeldrivingJon]

Maybe they meant a 1 Gigawatt HDD?