Census Bureau Loses Hundreds of Laptops 203
Billosaur writes "According to CNN, The U.S. Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau. According to Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez, 'All of the equipment that was lost or stolen contained protections to prevent a breach of personal information.' This comes after the fiasco involving the Veteran's Affairs Department's loss and eventual recovery of a laptop containing 26.5 million veteran and active-duty records." Given the scope of the operation, are these losses to be expected or is this an example of poor government security standards?
Heh. (Score:5, Funny)
heh. makes me think about ... (Score:2, Funny)
Sheesh, I hope I haven't ever acquired one accidenatlly
Counting the wrong things. (Score:3, Funny)
It's only to be expected (Score:5, Funny)
I'll bet this is a direct result of their "Fill in our survey, get a FREE laptop!" promotion during the last census.
Census is leet (Score:5, Funny)
Laptops for sale! (Score:2, Funny)
Are they sure? (Score:3, Funny)
Are they sure? Maybe they miscounted...
bada-bing!
OK, sorry about that.
Re:No consequences means no responsibility. (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like just about every place I've worked. You have the office wanderer (the employee that is never in their office and you know you can find them in one of the offices of), the office chatterbox (the person that is always talking to someone on personal business), the office lazyass (the person who is in iTunes Store, surfing CNN, or printing some 100 page PDF on the schematics for their MAME arcade box instead of doing their jobs), and finally you have the office whiner (the person who doesn't do anything except complain to everyone (the chatterbox and wanderer especially) about how busy they are).
Then you have the people, like me, that do their jobs and go the fuck home w/o talking to anyone. We are considered the "anti-social assholes" because we get our work done, on time with praise, and make all the other douchebags look bad.
Yes, this is mostly a joke. Mod appropriately
Re:No consequences means no responsibility. (Score:5, Funny)
Extra protection (Score:3, Funny)