Trickier than it looks

NASA had the same problem

Working on the Apollo program, I was escorted around a system development area at MIT because the Apollo guidance hardware was off the Atlas ICBM. My job was to test the guidance system integration with the two radar systems on the Lunar Module. By the way, MIT saved the lunar landing by building software restart points. With out that the first landing would have been aborted due to a switch in the wrong setting.

You can look but you can't see

I worked in a mainframe shop were payroll checks were printed in the computer room. If there was a jam the operator was expected to fix it. Some times this means checking the last check printed and restarting the print cycle. The operator also had full access to the payroll report. They just trusted the operator not to read and devule the comtents.

In high security environments, ie CIA, State dept, Pentatgon, people working on secure systems must have a security clearance equal to the security of the data on the computer. In almost all cases there will be a security officer looking look over the shoulder of the repairman all the while he is working on the computer. If the repairman can't fix it in a day the computer is locked up in a secure vault until the next day.

Anonymotti take note

The thread below regarding security clearances is the ONLY valid reason for using the "Anonymous" moniker in The Shark Tank.

(The employers of all those anonymous posters have ways of determining exactly who they are.)

CAPTCHA: twinned said - gubment doublespeak?

The present is just an illusion

I had the same thing happen to me. The ansible repeater goes bad down in the Chronoscope room, so I head down. Some guy named Potterley blocks me at the door and tells me "no way, that's top secret." And I'm like "so what, that antique can't see past 120 year ago anyway. If I need to research the Sino-American war, I'll give you a call." So I F-L-U-F him out of the way and get to work. Turns out, the perv has it set to 1 second ago and focused on the YWAA ladies locker room. I didn't turn him in because, well, that's one he owes me.

"Her response: 'That's for you to figure out!'"

"My response: 'I figure I'll come back after you load something I can look at.'"

(I sure do hope fluf is in the house today.)

CAPTCHA = shorter drastic -- my GPS setting