From "Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," by Richard P. Feynman:
All during the war, and even after, there were these perpetual rumors: “Somebody’s been trying to get into Building Omega!” You see, during the war they were doing experiments for the bomb in which they wanted to get enough material together for the chain reaction to just get started...a very dangerous experiment!
Naturally, they were not doing this experiment in the middle of Los Alamos, but off several miles, in a canyon several mesas over, all isolated. This Building Omega had its own fence around it with guard towers. In the middle of the night when everything’s quiet, some rabbit comes out of the brush and smashes against the fence and makes a noise. The guard shoots. The lieutenant in charge comes around. What’s the guard going to say—that it was only a rabbit? No. “Somebody’s been trying to get into Building Omega and I scared him off!”
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Now with everyone afraid of technology, and with rumors flying that major national players like China and Russia have been hacking our computers (and for no good reason, feeding information to Julian Assange), all of a sudden the CIA says "Somebody's been trying to get into Building Omega and I scared him off!" Seriously, we need to stop paying attention to tabloid scandal-mongering -- regardless of the source.
