July 19, 2004

Last week, LANL was closed upon a [security review](http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/3548395/detail.html) from National Nuclear Security Administration director and Bush appointee, [Linton Brooks](http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/brooks/brooks.php) and Bush apointee Deputy Energy Secretary [Kyle McSlarrow](http://www.energy.gov/engine/content.do?BT_CODE=AD_LKEMS) who are now back in DC. The reason for closing the all nonessential sections of the lab (even high security areas like the museum and cafeteria) was a [missing removable storage device](http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0113/web-alamos-01-17-03.asp) that contained classified material. From the [Albuquerque Journal](http://www.abqjournal.com/north/aplanl07-15-04.htm): *The incident is the latest in a series of embarrassments that have prompted federal officials to put the Los Alamos management contract up for bid for the first time in the 61-year history of the lab that built the atomic bomb.* Gee, I wonder if Haliburton wil get the contract worth [billions of dollars](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/11/MN16775.DTL)? We're going to start a new cold war.

The DC11 media archives are now online... you can get real [audio and video](http://www.defcon.org/html/links/defcon-media-archives.html) of all the talks you missed because you were too drunk to see them.

Verizon has announced it will be [rolling out Fiber](http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=86053) on the last mile in HB as well as two other cities. tip o the hat to [JTX](http://www.hatesville.com)

LAPD will be [using more video cameras](http://www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/8869453p-9758793c.html) to patrol areas around Los Angeles after a successful trial in Macarthur park. [[topix los angeles](http://www.topix.net/city/los-angeles-ca)]