Bureaucrats aren’t known for their out-of-the-box thinking. Probably half the staff at the NSA could figure out how to get the data off the tapes, but the person in charge of this isn’t that cleaver and might think that there could be something classified on them. Either in plain sight or as in the form of some sort of Steganography. They can’t leave the building with the tapes and they can’t use someone else’s player as it might be bugged. “The Thing” probably still spokes the hell out of them.
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They should call TechMoan or CathodeRayDude! One of them probably has the right player just sort of… lying around!
Whoopsie! History just slips through your fingers like sand sometimes, huh?
Complete incompetence that it wasn’t digitized already.
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I know two VCR repair men who would be up to the job 🤔 somebody call Lighting Fast VCR!!
Those guys are a couple of hackfrauds
Christ just tell Biden to make them give them to the national archives with an executive order. They’ll figure it out.
God damn! Somebody buy the government a VCR!
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NSA don’t know things, they know people.
I’ll lend them my VCR
Smart people do dumb things sometimes.
Bureaucrats aren’t known for their out-of-the-box thinking. Probably half the staff at the NSA could figure out how to get the data off the tapes, but the person in charge of this isn’t that cleaver and might think that there could be something classified on them. Either in plain sight or as in the form of some sort of Steganography. They can’t leave the building with the tapes and they can’t use someone else’s player as it might be bugged. “The Thing” probably still spokes the hell out of them.