RSSFBI Dealing With its Lost Laptop Problem
By the Betanews Staff | Published February 13, 2007, 2:54 PM
Although the FBI still seems to suffer from a problem of losing laptops, a new report indicates that the agency is getting better in keeping track of its equipment. During a 44-month period, the company either reported as lost or stolen 160 laptops. This is a marked decrease from the initial study in 2002, which found the agency lost some 317 units in a 28-month period from October 1999 through January 2002.
However, even with the improvement come concerns of data loss. As many as 51 of them possibly contained classified or sensitive information, with 8 of those confirmed to have held such data. In one case, a laptop contained personal data on FBI employees. In any case, the new report said "the FBI has taken steps to address weaknesses in physical inventories," although it recommended continued vigilance.
i dont really know what to say to this........
FBI. internal national security is at stake. if anything at least train competent personel who can handle the responsibility of handling sensitive information.
this isnt f*cking daycare people!! get it together!
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|Federal Bureau of Ineptitude.
Who needs Al Queada when we're doing a fine job on ourselves?
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|so why is 160 acceptable at all? why do these people have them? i think 1 laptop lost or stolen is unacceptable, when dealing with confidential data.
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|"Mulder, where the hell is your laptop?" - Scully
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|lmfao
"Uhh, aliens abducted it?" - Mulder
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|Reactive. Lovely.
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|Repubs have been losing laptops and compromising national security for decades, on top of outright treason — remember it was Reagan and Rumsfeld who gave "wmd" to Iraq and Afghanistan back in the early 80s, not to mention that little arms-for-hostages deal with Iran. And they're all in court for outing CIA agents to the conservative media this month.
Just take the keys away from these wackos and stop letting them drive the family car. They've run it into the tree too many times.
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|The trolls never cease to amuse.
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|What does politics have to do with people loosing equipment? The question I have is why are IT departments giving laptops to everyone? Yes, they are convient but are the security risks worth it?
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|agreed
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|The Sixties weren’t good to you, were they...
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|LMAO...
Great, now I'm going to have to start calling him Filmore.
Respect the classics, maaan
Though I doubt he was alive in the Seventies, much less the Sixties.
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|Even if he wasn't, it fits.
"It's a conspiracy, man! The oil companies got a grip on the government. They're feeding us a bunch of lies, man!"
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|It seems to me that all laptops users with sensitive information should be required to use a tool such as PGP to encrypt their hard drives so that if a laptop is stolen, the data is not accessible.
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|Go back to DU
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|Duh! Some government beauracrats ain't this smart. In fact those idiots originally tried to outlaw that PGP software. Where would the FBI be now had they been successful in the 90's?
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|remember it was you who gave us "wtf" for days....
i mean honestly.....
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