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From: cjsgro@watdragon.UUCP (Carlo Sgro)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <389@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 23:54:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 23:54:53 1986
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From <<Computer Security>> by John M. Carroll:

March 1971:  A computer employee in New York, given two weeks notice of layoff,
             removed all the labels from 1,500 reels of tape.  It cost the 
             company thousands of dollars in labour to re-identify the data.
December 1971:  The Arizona State Finance Centre found that it was unable to 
                reconstruct a magnetic tape file from punch card backup.  Two
                thousand cards had been used as Christmas tree ornaments or 
                paper airplanes.
July 1972:   A computer operator in Denver was arrested for repeatedly short-
             circuiting with a screwdriver a computer disk drive on the machine
             he operated.  He claimed he had an overwhelming urge to shut down
             computer.  His employer spent $500,000 over a two-year period 
             trying to find the recurring trouble.  He was finally caught by
             closed circuit TV surveillance.

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