Nightly News   |  March 01, 2012

Stolen: Laptop with NASA codes

The computer, which included a number of codes for the International Space Station, is unencrypted. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> of an embarrassment for nasa. they've now admitted 48 electronic devices have been lost or stolen in just a two-year period including a laptop computer that contains the unencrypted codes for controlling the international space station . there may be more missing devices because reporting them is voluntary. so if the space station suddenly starts doing barrel rolls or spelling out somebody's name as it orbits the earth, you will know the laptop has fallen into the wrong hands.