The label that says this was LANL/Sandia/UNM/DOE property that someone forgot to remove. You may see other stickers that would indicate sampling efforts were made to free release these items. Trust is variable.
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Related: Always fun when I (used to) happen upon a rackmount computer that was missing its hard drives but still had SECRET or better TOP SECRET//SCI stickers on it that hadn't been scratched much less removed. Also related: On the old labels for floppy disks it was intentional that (1/2)
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 3 0 • view
the higher classification levels were physically larger such that write-low/read high was possible but one couldn't hide TS under UNCLAS. Then we started needing thin/tiny labels for multi-level KVMs and that went out the window as no one's using floppy disks any more. (2/2)
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Standard labels go on the top of the KVM. The front of the KVM gets a label that says which system because we’ve got at least two at any classification level.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
That is certainly an approach - I am speaking from a specific world where I had an UNCLAS computer on $corp network on one corner of my L-shaped desk, and a 4-port multi-level KVM on my "real" desk that had SIPR, $program network at TS, and TLA network at TS//SCI so we had no two networks at 1 level
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Technically, at the time a multi-level evaluated KVM is connected to a lower-classified network, if one chooses 2 put a (e.g) TS label on it that's not technically correct but I'll absolutely allow it's common practice lacking a better way to mark things. (class of multi-level eval'd KVM w/o power?)
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Oh like library and archive (de)accession stamps? 😂
aug 16, 2025, 8:33 pm • 5 0 • view
More the traceability of samples for hazmats and rad on a given item.
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Ah! Yes I suppose so 😱
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