I think the general public would understand that. ANASTASIO: There's no question in anybody's mind that if you take classified material offsite, you're violating the law. The lab looked into whether that training needed improvement, but Anastasio says it's pretty clear as it is. The lab has her signature proving it, he says. Jessica Quintana had been trained to handle classified material. KESTENBAUM: Anastasio says the regulations needed updating, but the central problem is that someone broke the law. KESTENBAUM: Do you ever use a memory stick? ANASTASIO: One of our challenges, of course, is that technology moves forward very rapidly, often faster than you can write policies. iPods were restricted, but the rules said nothing about memory sticks, which people often carry around on their key chains. You could bring in a government cell phone if you removed the battery first so it wouldn't work. She worked in a vault-type room, no cameras allowed. Jessica Quintana's job was to scan paper documents so they could go into an electronic database. KESTENBAUM: He says in some cases the lab has filled the ports with glue.

We've also disabled the so-called port on the computer where you can plug these things in.

MICHAEL ANASTASIO (Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory): Any kind of these removable memory devices are prohibited. He says memory sticks are now banned from classified computing areas. Michael Anastasio, the lab's director who took over this year, agreed to talk to NPR. It contained some classified documents and, according to her lawyer, some baby pictures. Walked out with a couple hundred pages from classified documents and that memory stick, a data storage device the size of your thumb capable of holding an entire encyclopedia. Some of those documents were on a small data storage device called a memory stick.ДAVID KESTENBAUM: Jessica Quintana(ph) was 22 years old and working as a kind of librarian at the lab when she made what her lawyer calls a 22-year-old mistake: She brought her work home. As NPR's David Kestenbaum reports, police had found classified documents belonging to the nuclear weapons lab at a nearby mobile home. The Los Alamos National Laboratory discovered a breach in its security last month, and now it's come up with new security rules.

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