[vannrox]

AGREED!

Anyone listening?... Please follow these Two simple rules:

1. No agency that works with secrets should have laptops.
2. Top secret computers should not be hooked up to the internet in any way.

[TaxPayer2000]

apparently this must be in some rule book, that no one dealing in secrets should have a laptop. Maybe we should add another rule. Like all persons dealing in secrets must have thier tongues cut out. Lets think a moment shall we? Is a secret any safer in a desktop? on a note pad? etched in stone? The problem is not the laptop, it is the security thereof.

[OldFriend]

Agreed 1000%............my son served overseas and his computer was on his desk.....pretty hard to hide.....LOL....and there was NO WAY this computer was connected to the outside world. MILITARY USE ONLY.

[Campion]

Those are two good rules, all right, but they aren't enough in an age when someone can stick two gigs of data on a DAT tape that's barely larger than a box of matches.

[rhombus]

a little too simple...
warfighters carry laptops onboard many recon planes

[floriduh voter]

I like your ideas. You get an "A". Laptops are too easy to slink away with. Now disconnecting your average P.C., that would raise some eyebrows and would take too long IMO. Even trying to put secrets on a disk like the guy did from the Energy Dept. would take some time. And he got let go because he played the ethnic card.