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Originally Posted by Osem
Sadly I really think it might be more the norm than you think. I reckon incidents of stupidity like this happen all the time and only a tiny few ever result in a loss - those are the ones we hear about.
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You're probably right, because the headline:
"
MoD Loses Fully Encrypted, 6 Year-Old, Laptop. Personal Details Perfectly Safe."
Isn't going to sell many papers.
Personally, the loss of the laptop is almost inconsequential. Yes, it's a few hundred pounds out of the public purse, but you could recover that by fining some of the big businesses that run millions of pounds over budget on Government contracts - now that would make the headlines wouldn't it (although, as usual, probably in a negative sense):
"
Thousands of Jobs at Risk as Government Penalises UK Industry."
Anyway, it's not the asset that's the issue here, it's the information that it contained.