Air Force tried harder, now says that giant database can be recovered

[Ignatius]

@doctorow

Now, in a terse announcement, the Air Force says that it can recover those records, thanks to “aggressively leveraging all vendor and department capabilities,” which is IT-ese for “we tried harder.” Maybe they’re just running strings on giant core-dumps?

More likely someone heard the announcement and went “What? Really? Oh god, you hacks.”

I have three questions in any case:

1. Why did Lockheed wait two weeks to notify the Air Force?
2. How did the Air Force not notice that the database was down for two weeks?
3. Why did no one ever check to make sure the backups could actually be restored?