I MEANT to do that...
Posted on 02/12/2007 11:07:31 AM PST by mfnorman
Edited on 02/12/2007 11:12:50 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI lost at least 10 laptop computers containing classified information during a four-year period ending in 2005, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
The 10 were among the 160 laptops lost or stolen during a 44-month period ending September 30, 2005, Inspector General Glenn Fine reported. Along with the laptops, an equal numbers of weapons were also missing.
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People do.
F*****g Bureaucratic Incompetents.
They should have encrypted drives that purge all data if the user is unable to log in successfully after say 5 consecutive attempts.
[sigh]
A good rule for the security aware -
NEVER PUT CLASIFIED INFORMATION ON A LAPTOP!!!
How about - never give a laptop to an FBI agent?
FBI = Famous But Incompetent
LOL. Hoover must really be spinning in his grave.
WARNING: Bad language!
Well... About a year ago, the Bureau did solve a 20 year old homicide in Chicago.
They're probably on a table in Hillary's office.
CNN, we know you're a little behind the "curve" of the news, but it's now 2007.
No not again.
It's news from 2005 and before
No, he's lying face down.
Oh, I know they're not all screw-ups. But this kinda thing is inexcusable.
The keystone cops comes to mind.
ROTFL!
Having worked for the govt for many years, here is a possible reason:
The gov't is sticker happy. They put property stickers on everything of value. Then inventory it once a year. If during that year, the property sticker is lost, or damaged, the item (a lap top in this case) is reported as "MISSING".
Once I had a chair show up 3 years after it became missing and was written off as lost. The logistics people couldn't figure out how to add an item to the inventory that was already lost. Finally they simply restickkered the chair with a new sticker. HOWEVER, they had to charge my budget $175.00 for a new chair, because they couldn't resticker an item that was free. I just shook my head.
"Once I had a chair show up 3 years after it became missing and was written off as lost. The logistics people couldn't figure out how to add an item to the inventory that was already lost. Finally they simply restickkered the chair with a new sticker. HOWEVER, they had to charge my budget $175.00 for a new chair, because they couldn't resticker an item that was free. I just shook my head. "
I shake my head when I think how they will handle my medical tests if my life depends on them should they take over health care. It is bad enough now.
Bush's fault.. Now we'll hear about a new initiative from Hillary or OsamaObama about how they would do a better job protecting the "kids" at the FBI..
Ping
You forget that this is the FBI, they are easily the least tech ready law enforcement agency in the world. Listen to the Libby trial, they don't even tape record their interviews with suspects and they have lost the notes of the senior Agent In Charge. On 911 it was reported that fewer than 50% could even use a PC.
That would be intelligent, so of course, it was out of the question : )
I MEANT to do that...
What ever became of security training and security procedures? Federals have decayed in competence quite a lot these past few years.
Yup. Happens all of the time. Lots of lost stuff that isn't lost, just the person responsible doesn't know who it belongs to, or the sticker# was recorded wrong - leaving you with a missing object and an unrecorded object.
We have missing tanks and major vehicles too.
Keystone Cops.
Very little to defend FBI against actions that clearly do not reflect an agency that needs serious housecleaning, if not massive cuts in funding.
The Inspector General reported this today.
Once, I had an 18,000 gal fuel tank replaced. They forgot to drop it from the list. Next inventory, of course, missing.
I told the logistics guy that all they really were doing is keeping track of tags, not really the property. He got mad and told me that I had property to control, not tags.
I went to the salvage yard, dug around and found my old tank. I took the property sticker off it and handed it to the logistics guy. You would have thought it was Christmas, he was so happy. Then, in my "I told you so" voice, I said "see, you do only control the tags, not the property". I lost a friend for a week, till he forgot all about it.
I believe that is the excuse that was tried in Los Alamos.
I didn't buy it then either.
>>>What ever became of security training and security procedures?
It was replaced with sensitivity training and tolerance procedures.
People in the fbi should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. They should be sued for this.
When I worked for Generous Electric I couldn't find a mysterious item with a property tag during the yearly inventory. I was determined to find out what it was and what happened to it. Hours later I found the property tag, checked it off the list as "one each", and thus the tagged building we were in did not go onto the "missing" list.
Feel free to remove my post. Sorry for any inconvenience on my behalf!
It does that because Tripod disallows linking directly to pictures hosted on their servers.
The correct procedure in this instance would be to save the picture to your hard drive, go to a free image upload service like imageshack.us, upload it there, then link it into your FR post.
Thanks!
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