Also missing, you might imagine, is a bit of the agency's dignity. But the 160 laptops lost or stolen over the last four years (including some from counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence divisions) is actually down by about HALF from the preceding audit period, when 317 laptops walked out the door or got lost behind the water cooler.

So, um, I guess good work guys...

Due to the recent Veterans Afffairs laptop disappearance and related identity theft concerns, the Federal government issued a directive back in June of '06 that within 45 days all civilian agencies would be required to institute laptop security measures. So far compliance is at about 10%.

You can get the full story (both the '07 and '02 audit reports) over Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General. The '07 report is only available as a PDF at present. There is an HTML version of the '02 report, found here.

-- MDT

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