One of the hard drives confiscated after the Pakistan raid
A senior spokesman for Al-Qaeda admitted today that the terrorist organization had no backups for the data seized after the May 1st raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan.
“I know we should have had backups.” Â said Al-Qaeda’s Senior IT manager, who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Omar.
“Hard drives fail, it’s only a matter of time, blah, blah, blah. Â But look, it’s been kind of crazy around here. Â Also, we have different types of operating systems, Macs, PCs, some Unix. Â And the hardware? Â Forget about it. Â Some of the backups were on external drives, some on DVDs, we even had some old Zip disks, believe it or not.”
“I was always telling Osama to get some kind of automated system, but he wouldn’t hear of it. Â I was pushing for something cutting edge like a Cloud system, but, as Osama pointed out, who do we call if we need tech support?”
“Hello, this is Al-Qaeda, can you help us backup our plans to kill people?” Â Omar said, miming a telephone call.
“My nephew backed up a lot of people onto a USB drive, but then that crashed. Â So were screwed. Â The Americans caught us with our thobes down.”
