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FBI Unsure if Missing Notebook PCs Contain Sensitive Data

Jana Cranmer writes on GCN.com:

The FBI has reduced notebook PC losses by 312 percent since 2002, but the bureau has failed to adequately report whether stolen computers contain classified or sensitive data, the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General said in an audit report last week.

“When losses occur, the FBI must timely report the loss, be able to identify the contents of lost laptops and determine whether the laptop is encrypted,” the bureau’s IG said in a follow-up report to a 2002 analysis. “In addition, the FBI “must investigate these losses and thefts, enter required data into the National Crime Information Center and report the losses to the DOJ as required.”

The IG’s “most troubling” discovery was “the FBI could not determine in many cases whether the lost or stolen laptop computers contained sensitive or classified information.”

posted by Fergie @ 2/26/2007 04:58:00 PM