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12,000 Laptops Lost Weekly At Airports

Posted by timothy on from the dignity-lost-even-more-often dept.

kthejoker writes "Apparently companies are even worse about losing our data than we suspected. From the article: 'According to a study of 106 major US airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers ever recover the lost devices. Nearly half of the travelers say their laptops contain customer data or confidential business information.' Kinda scary..."

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  1. This raises important questions by merreborn · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Why do they keep giving these 800 people laptops if they're each losing over 12 per week?

    1. Re:This raises important questions by whiplashx · · Score: 5, Funny
      Reminds me of the statistic: Every 2 seconds an American woman is raped.

      That poor woman...

  2. www.ebay.com by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... and the answer is yes.

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  3. Pokemon Institute by andrewd18 · · Score: 4, Funny

    published by the Pokemon Institute ... about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week

    They're missing because I caught them all!

  4. Re:Insurance by TommydCat · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've obviously never lost a company laptop... They definitely care and can show it by giving you an "off the shelf replacement" which turns out to actually be a Kaypro luggable ;)

    I've observed a similar thing with replacement Blackberrys...

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  5. Re:208000 laptops per year... by fizzup · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get it 12,000 laptops per week times 17 1/3 weeks per year means 208,000 laptops per year.

    208,000 laptops per year times 4.8269231 years means 1,004,000 laptops in five years.

    What are you on? Glue?

  6. Re:I rent a laptop when I get there by element-o.p. · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me, or did the above post sound like it was written by a hit man? ;)

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  7. Not me... by denzacar · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.xkcd.com/178/

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