Source: Natasha Singer - The N.Y. Times ( Paid Registration )

Last summer, employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration received an in-house newsletter illustrated with mock front pages of USA Today and The Washington Post and seemingly hyperbolic headlines like: “NASA Laptop Stolen, Potential Compromise of 10,000 Employees’ Private Information!”

The catastrophizing turned out to be prescient.

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