Sunday, May 30, 2004

DEA loses a computer

Just one too many security risk laptops gone missing, if you ask me.

This is the fourth one since I've been blogging in October.

Talk Left has an account:

DEA Loses Laptop With Informant Data

Whoops. An auditor for the DEA has lost his laptop with data concerning over 100 informants, including over 4,000 pages of sensitive case-file information that if delivered into the wrong hands could allow traffickers to identify the informants. The loss story sounds fishy, because first the auditor told the DEA the laptop was stolen from his car trunk while he was inside a coffeehouse, but later...
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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.