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Offline Barman

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Missing Laptop
« on: January 27, 2008, 12:00:09 PM »
I was just listening to a program on forces radio about the missing laptop with the names of everybody that considered joining the armed forces on…

It turns out that this is not such an unusual event; in fact on average they lose one laptop every single week!  Banghead

What on earth is going on?  noooo:
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2008, 12:39:37 PM »
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2008, 12:45:34 PM »
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2008, 07:13:43 PM »
They are flogging them to Iraqis
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2008, 08:39:28 PM »
Quote from: Nick on January 27, 2008, 07:13:43 PM
They are flogging them to Iraqis

How much do they get?

I have an ancient Compaq laptop in the cupboard. It wouldn't take much to run off a Dymo label saying "Top Secret".  whistle:
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2008, 08:53:49 PM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 27, 2008, 08:39:28 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 27, 2008, 07:13:43 PM
They are flogging them to Iraqis

How much do they get?

I have an ancient Compaq laptop in the cupboard. It wouldn't take much to run off a Dymo label saying "Top Secret".  whistle:
Ahem... remember Gary Glitter tho...  whistle:
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2008, 08:56:53 PM »
Quote from: Barman on January 27, 2008, 08:53:49 PM
Quote from: Darwins Selection on January 27, 2008, 08:39:28 PM
Quote from: Nick on January 27, 2008, 07:13:43 PM
They are flogging them to Iraqis

How much do they get?

I have an ancient Compaq laptop in the cupboard. It wouldn't take much to run off a Dymo label saying "Top Secret".  whistle:
Ahem... remember Gary Glitter tho...  whistle:
The other kind of "laptop". . .
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2008, 07:40:25 AM »
In my day we didn't have bloody latops, the lads and I invaded Poland with just an abacus and I didnt lose it eeek:
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2008, 07:58:55 AM »
I used to lose things… my mum chained the front door key to my trousers so I looked like a prison warden.  noooo:

Perhaps that’s an idea…  rubschin:
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2008, 08:56:17 AM »
Quote from: Barman on January 28, 2008, 07:58:55 AM
I used to lose things… my mum chained the front door key to my trousers so I looked like a prison warden.  noooo:

Perhaps that’s an idea…  rubschin:

Trousers?  Luxury. . . .
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2008, 08:57:55 AM »
Don't start that.  ::)
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Re: Missing Laptop
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2008, 09:05:58 AM »
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2008, 10:50:22 AM »
It isnt just the government, armed forces or banks losing them now. Marks and Spencers have got in on the act:

"This isnt just a laptop, this is a Marks and Spencers company laptop filled with unencrypted employee pension details......"

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Marks and Spencer has been found in breach of data protection rules after the theft of a laptop containing the personal details of 26,000 employees.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the data on the laptop, which was stolen from the home of an M&S contractor, was unencrypted.

The ICO has ordered M&S to make sure all laptop hard drives are fully encrypted by April 2008.

M&S said it would do everything it could to comply with the ICO order.

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The stolen laptop contained details on the pension arrangements of M&S staff.

"It is essential that before a company allows personal information to leave its premises on a laptop there are adequate security procedures in place to protect personal information, for example, password protection and encryption," said Mick Gorrill, assistant commissioner at the ICO.

An M&S spokeswoman said the retailer had not been expecting the ruling and had already been working with the regulator to remedy the problem.

She added that no employees had reported problems resulting from the loss of the data contained in the laptop, which was stolen in April 2007.

M&S said it had already begun encrypting laptops.

Failure to comply with the enforcement order is a criminal offence, the ICO said.
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Re: Missing Laptop
« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2008, 12:59:55 PM »
Quote from: Grumpmeister on January 28, 2008, 10:50:22 AM
"This isnt just a laptop, this is a Marks and Spencers company laptop filled with unencrypted employee pension details......"

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