Are your laptop and data safe when you travel? Survey says …
A Ponemon Institute study states 12,000 traveler laptops go lost missing or stolen each week at US airports. Gartner, Inc. says a laptop is stolen in the US every 53 seconds. Ned Levi reports on the startling statistics and how you can protect your laptop and data.
New Senate bill would ban laptop search and seizure
Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., has introduced legislation forbidding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from searches of travelers’ computer hard drives without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Tripso has reported on heavy-handed DHS searches and confiscation. It is nice to see that someone in the Senate is paying attention this unfettered federal intrusion into our freedom.
Government warns travelers of laptop threat in secret document
Turns out the Department of Homeland Security isn’t the only agency confiscating traveler’s laptops. Foreign governments are targeting the PCs of US corporate and government personnel traveling abroad, according to a secret document released last week. And it’s about to get worse.
TSA seeks a better laptop case
The Transportation Security Administration wants to eliminate one of the more tedious tasks of air travelers — removing their laptop computers from their bags and sending them through the X-ray machine.