@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange
Post #1930994
2026-05-03 12:35 UTC
Los Alamos nuclear secrets "leaked" in LGP-21 magnetic disk memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjh0SaA5dc
I guess securely wiping storage media wasn't a thing eh?
#retrocomputing #usagielectric
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@harrysintonen@infosec.exchange 2026-05-03 12:51
Certainly, it was a different time back then, but the huge spying incidents related to the US nuclear program had already happened. It boggles my mind that Los Alamos National Laboratory would just hand out any hardware to third parties, rather than just destroying it.