Without any numbers/data to back up the claim I take the results with a grain of salt. My 5 minutes of research on the Ponemon institute doesn’t show who paid them for the survey..

JK has a large readership that travel, has anyone _here_ lost a laptop at an airport?

I only travel a couple times/month but haven’t seen anyone in line at the major US airports I frequent complaining about a lost laptop.

10,000/week @ 36 airports is 277/day or assuming a 16 hour day or 17/hour.

That just seems too large a number in my book..

@Ricky B

Bummed to hear that my friend.

Security is a big issue for us gadget freaks. We happily talk about how much stuff we can carry and get cool bags for it all etc., but it all can easily be lost.

12000 laptops a WEEK. That’s phenomenal!

That’s a huge number. I wonder how many are insurance scams? I’m glad nobody realises that my little OQO is really a PC in a PDA case.

Doesn’t help if the TSA employees decide to steal it and the government protects them.

It wasn’t in an airport, but I lost a laptop when I got mugged recently… LoJack is a great idea. So is full-disk encryption. I didn’t use either, and I *really* wish I had. It costs more or takes more time to set up, but I really recommend everyone set it up now, before it’s too late.

as pointed out earlier today it’s probably wiser to call these “expenditures” rather than “investments” for most people. lol but if somebody took my mac book then I’d be dead. anybody who flies internationally can tell you that the problem is even worse in other countries, especially far east.

From what I hear from people in my organization, if you put your laptop in checked luggage you don’t get it back.

I’ll hold off putting my laptop(s) into the machine until I know both myself and my laptop(s) will arrive at the other side at the same time.
That cant help the speed of the line, but until there is a better system in place from the TSA…