Gotta love system security! Remember the Clear system that lets you skip lines at airports?

[thewayne]

It is a system where you can pay money to be investigated and get a pass to let you skip the inspection lines at airports. You submit fingerprints, the FBI does checks, etc. 33,000 people have enrolled.

Well, a couple of weeks ago a laptop that contained the detailed information of everyone who has signed up for the program was stolen from a locked office at San Francisco airport. The server that the data is stored upon is encrypted.

The laptop wasn't.

But everything is OK -- the laptop was found again! In the same office that it was stolen from. In a different place in the office. Behind a locked door.

But don't worry -- "they" have determined that the data was not accessed.

The same people who didn't encrypt the laptop? And we're supposed to take their word that someone who can go into a secure area, through locked doors, and steal a laptop, and then replace a laptop in the same office, again, through locked doors and in a secure area, can't remove the drive from the laptop and clone it?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/05/BU2V125HTF.DTL&tsp=1

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/06/1021225

Comments

[silveradept]

Always nice to know that the government chooses excellent people with which to partner up