"We're from the government, and ..."

[unixronin]

"... we're apparently incapable of even helping ourselves, except to the contents of your wallet."

According to a report released by the Inspector General of the Justice Department yesterday, over a 44 month period starting in 2002 the FBI reported 160 laptops and 160 weapons as lost or stolen.

"[...] one of the laptops stolen from the FBI's Quantico Laboratory Division contained "names, addresses, and telephone numbers of FBI personnel."  Others contained unknown information that could be classified.  Most of the missing laptops were lost, not stolen."

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[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I suspect that if someone released the entire FBI employee list with SSANs, employee numbers and photographs they'd take this a bit more seriously.

They are idiots. It's trivially easy to do all database access remotely now. Even better is 'dumb' laptops that are no more and no less than an X-Terminal. Programs could not even be loaded on one I looked at and it was wireless, granted this was the early 90s and it was a warehouse tool but now it's even cheaper and easier to do.