Oh phew, no classified information. That's a nice misleading statement who knows WHAT was on those machines.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">security curmudgeon</b> <<a href="mailto:jericho@attrition.org">
jericho@attrition.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Courtesy Fergie <<a href="mailto:fergdawg@netzero.net">
fergdawg@netzero.net</a>><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br>Via GCN.com.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>The Energy Department notified Congress yesterday that it has lost 1,427<br>laptop PCs over the past six years. The department said none of the
<br>laptops contained classified information.<br><br>The figure represents approximately two percent of its current inventory<br>of laptop computers, or approximately 71,874 units used either by agency<br>personnel or contractors.
<br><br>The Energy Department statement broke down the missing laptops by year,<br>with 144 reported missing for 2001, 248 in 2002, 256 in 2003, 258 in 2004,<br>223 in 2005 and 205 in 2006. Another 81 laptops were identified as
<br>missing, though the years those went missing were not disclosed. The<br>agency revealed the information in response to a Freedom of Information<br>Act request filed by WTOP, a Washington, D.C., news radio station.<br>
<br>[snip]<br><br>More:<br><a href="http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44344-1.html">http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44344-1.html</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Dataloss Mailing List (<a href="mailto:dataloss@attrition.org">
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