Isn't "What could go wrong?" on the top famous last words list? right next to: "Ooops"/"Oops, oh bugger"
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Two stories that arrived at almost the same time this morning, and one > from earlier this week. > > > http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/afp-apologises-plastic-explosive-in-suitcase-sydney-airport > > The Australian Federal Police left a suitcase with 230g of plastic > explosive at the Sydney airport. It was used in a bomb sniffing dog > exercise and forgotten. It was found three weeks later after someone gave > the bag to a woman as replacement for lost luggage and she wondered about > the stuff she found in it when she got home. Lucky she didn't run into the > AFP dog at the airport. > > > http://news.sciencemag.org/people-events/2014/09/researcher-loses-job-nsf-after-government-questions-her-role-1980s-activist > > The US Office of Personnel Management have accused an NSF program manager > of lying about her activities in the 1980s based on evidence which they > will not disclose. She's been dismissed from her position at NSF as a > result. This is possibly part of a Snowden inspired "toughening" of > standards. > > > http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2014-09-09/security-clearance-contractor-to-lose-govt-work > > That's the contractor who cleared Snowden and the Navy Yard shooter, > submitted over half-a-million fraudulent clearance investigations, and lost > 25,000 personnel files of Homeland Security employees to a cyber-attack > last month. > > Are we all feeling safe, yet? > > -- rec -- > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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