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2% of all laptops sold every year are stolen from airports?

2008-07-01 16:58:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey Over 630K laptops lost each year just within airports! From IDC's Quarterly PC tracker (Dec 2007) we see that over 31M laptops were projected to be...
 
Tags: laptops, 630k laptops lost, laptops lost, airports, lost, laptop loss, apparently laptop loss, airports report close, 31m laptops
 
 
 
 
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Hundreds of Thousands of Laptops Lost at U.S. Airports Annually

2008-07-04 08:20:38 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey. Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest U.S. airports, and 65 percent of those laptops are not reclaimed, the...
 
Tags: laptops, recover lost laptops, lost laptops, lost, laptops lost, commonly lost, airports, lost laptop, percent
 
 
 
 
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iPhone Gains 15 Minutes Free Wi-Fi in 28 Airports

2008-05-02 12:04:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...airports: If you're traveling in the US, Canada, or the UK through one of the 28 airports operated by Boingo's Concourse division, you can trade 15 seconds of your life for 15 minutes of free Wi-Fi. The company has tested this previously, and has now rolled the deal out The service is enabled by JiWire , which has gradually transitioned...
 
Tags: hotspot, hotspot ads involve, ads, boingo offers ads-for-access, boingo, free wi-fi, wi-fi, access, gain access
 
 
 
 
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Survey: More than 10,000 laptops lost each week at airports

2008-06-30 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Close to 637,000 laptops are reported lost at 106 U.S. airports each year, according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute
 
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Laptops lost like hot cakes at US airports

2008-06-30 00:00:00 by Agam Shah in Network World on Security
 
Keep laptops close at airports, because they have a startling tendency to disappear in the blink of an eye, according to a new survey
 
Tags: airports, laptops close, blink, survey, eye, tendency, disappear
 
 
 
 
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Wayport Tops 10,000 McDonald's Locations

2008-04-29 09:25:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...airports; and despite their survival of the first hotspot meltdown in 2001 during the dotcom crash and brief venture capital shortage; and despite their early entrance into allowing wholesale pricing for hotspot aggregators; the firm seemed about to be eclipsed by apparently deep-pocketed Cometa (with AT&T, IBM, and Intel in various capital...
 
Tags: wayport, wi-fi, comprehensive wi-fi plan, local wi-fi network, att service, service, wayport offers, network, wayport caches
 
 
 
 
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Why would the Government hire a security consultant and then not listen to him?

2008-06-19 19:56:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...airports I have long known that U.S. airports are not as safe as people would like to think. Apart from all of the "mistakes" and the prohibited items that make it past the security check points, there is the procedure whereby bags remain unchecked in any form until people have gained access to ticket desks and the internal front area of the...
 
Tags: aviv, aviv claims, concerns juval aviv, terrorist attack, people, terrorist, attack, airports, munich olympic games
 
 
 
 
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HOV lane inside the Airport for 65,000

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2008-01-18 03:18:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
...airports? Scare people? No, allow them to pay a few dollars more to go to the head of the line. The company who is introducing the program to Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports in the Spring, is called "Verified Identity Pass" of New York Travelers who wish to speed their way through the airport experience (and who wouldn't), pay...
 
Tags: airport, minimal yearly fee, yearly fee, reagan national airports, airports, shorter security wait, scare people, shorter security lines, travelers
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Evolution of Free-Fi; The Clouds Adds Devicescape; Ruckus Sues NetGear

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2008-05-06 10:13:46 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...airports, but doesn't get the picture there, that airport costs and captivity are so high, it's unlikely that premium airports will switch to ad-support, even with the example of Denver and Las Vegas in hand The Cloud partners with Devicescape for no-configuration connections: The Cloud will use their software and service to allow its users...
 
Tags: free, free offer, netgear, free wi-fi, free airports, devicescape, free internet access, cloud partners, cloud
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security?<