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Watching NCIS last night and laughing at the stupidity. They needed secret access to a woman's computer, so went to her office.

The plan was, Ellie would ask to use the restroom and would then use a USB drive to "download the contents of her hard drive".

1) How would she get access to the computer?
2) Entire hard drive downloaded to a USB drive?
3) Done in the space of a toilet visit, 10 minutes??

There is no reality in these shows.
#computers #HardDrive #NCIS #USB

Recently I had to think of the April 19, 1989 gun turret explosion aboard the battleship USS Iowa that killed 47 sailors whose families never saw justice.

"The New York Times in 1993 severely criticized the U.S. Navy for a series of botched investigations, including the Tailhook scandal, the Iowa explosion, security breaches at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, Russia, and a problematic investigation into the murder of a homosexual sailor in Yokosuka, Japan. The newspaper stated, 'Each fumbled inquiry may have exposed a different U.S. Navy foible. The repeated bungling suggests a systemic problem in the Naval Investigative Service—and a management failure at the highest levels.'"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa

en.wikipedia.orgUSS Iowa turret explosion - Wikipedia