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UK armed forces lose loads of laptops

Military secrets leaked
By Stewart Meagher
Mon Jul 21 2008, 12:49

THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE has admitted that it has now lost 659 laptops and 121 memory sticks, some of which contained Top Secret data.

The latest theft, from a hotel in Liverpool, added to the previous total just one day after the embarrassing admission was made when a question about the scale of losses and thefts was tabled in parliament.

Originally, the MoD had confessed that 347 of its laptops were where they shouldn't be, but 'anomalies in the accounting process' forced a recount and the figure was nearly doubled (that's quite an anomaly).

The figures cover the years between 2004 and 2007. µ

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off with their heads

after the 3rd one i think they will get the message&#xD;
&#xD;
loose sensitive data&#xD;
loose your head!

posted by : ted, 22 July 2008 Complain about this comment
maybe they should spend the money on troop equipment,`

not laptops for "losers".

posted by : interested_party, 21 July 2008 Complain about this comment
Seriously

I assume that all those computers had a network card in 'em. And I also assume that the MoD most probably has a list of the accepted MAC addresses on their networks...&#xD;
I definitely would not connect to the web with these... and anyways, how come computers with sensitive data are not equipped with a Global Positioning System?

posted by : Huge, 21 July 2008 Complain about this comment
does this include?

all the laptops that they hand out to students joining the army at 6th form age?&#xD;
&#xD;

posted by : Bo Pedersen, 21 July 2008 Complain about this comment
idiots

attach them to their balls...&#xD;
they should charge the ones they lose with the price of the laptop new hehe you'll see that they won't lose them anymore.

posted by : duh, 21 July 2008 Complain about this comment
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