Air Force tried harder, now says that giant database can be recovered
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Last week, the Air Force announced that it had lost 12 years'
worth of records of whistleblower reports, freedom of
information requests, and corruption investigations because of
unrecoverable database corruption that not even its
contractor, Lockheed-Martin, could unsnarl. Now, in a terse
announcement, the Air Force says that it can recover those
records, thanks to "aggressively leveraging all vendor and
department capabilities," which is IT-ese for "we tried
harder." Maybe they're just running "strings" on giant
core-dumps?
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