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Top Ten Security Stories of 2004: Page 2 of 12

The situation descended into farce in August, when it was reported that the disks may not be missing after all (see Los Alamos Disks May Not Be Lost).

Even this week, when NDCF contacted the Lab for an update, we were still unable to find out what had actually happened. A spokesman would only tell us that the investigation into the missing disks is "ongoing."

Well, it’s not as if Los Alamos is at the forefront of America’s nuclear weapons research or anything important like that -- d'oh! Hopefully, 2005 will give us some answers.

9. Clouds Gather Over CoSine – Will CoSine Get Carved Up?

The future is still uncertain for troubled equipment company CoSine Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: COSN). The first signs of trouble emerged back in July, when the security vendor announced it was examining "strategic alternatives" after a poor second quarter (see CoSine: The Big Sell-Off?).