Return to Article: Commerce reports loss of more than 1,100 laptops over 5 years

By Daniel Pulliam dpulliam@govexec.com September 22, 2006
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    Again, how about we keep the data inside the walls of the respective organizations by making remote employees access this information via a VPN and Terminal server and never allowing the actual data to reside on a vulnerable laptop, or home PC for that matter. This does make it so remote employees have to maintain a connection to do their work, but broadband has never been cheaper and how much money have we all spent on senseless data loss and theft.

    GovExec.com reader Posted September 26, 2006 5:47 PM
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    This should be great news for the VA employee (who got canned) and his attorney. With this information they should be assured to win their case. Wonder how many people were fired at the Commerce Department? Let's see -- we've got employees who supposedly lost the laptops and the managers who did nothing but covered the lost information up. Hmmmm?

    GovExec.com reader Posted September 26, 2006 11:05 AM
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    The numbers in this story just blow my mine. 30,000 laptops at Commerce would mean we have invested at least $35,000,000 in toys for the Commerce personnel. Also, they have lost or cannot account for about $1,600,000 in laptops over the last five years. Someone at Commerce should be paying the price for this total incompetent management but it will never happen. I guess we just write off the $1,600,000 as perks for Commerce personnel and go on. This is a good example of why we should reduce the Commerce Department substantially -- especially the sections that write reports on various industries and provide no value added for a government.

    We should see the same information for Energy, Education and other government operations that serve no useful purpose other than to allow incumbents to buy votes for re-election.

    Taxpayer Posted September 25, 2006 7:06 AM

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