US airports claim 10,000 laptops a week

A recent survey by the the Ponemon Institute stated that more than 10,000 laptop computers are lost or stolen at US airports every week. Nearly 65% of those laptops are never returned to the owner and half of which contain sensitive corporate information. The study was sponsored by Dell as a means of promoting their new laptop data protection services for those business travelers who spent too much time drunk at the airport bar embarrassingly flirting with their married coworker. The majority of the lost laptops end up with the TSA at the security checkpoint where they were forgotten about by their owners the same way they forgot where they parked their car in the garage. I'm still amazed at these numbers though. I'm so paranoid traveling with my laptop that I'm more likely to forget my shoes at the checkpoint than my computer.

(via USA Today)

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