Question: Laptops and PII

[Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>]

Would someone tell me why large quantities of PII are being toted  
around on a fscking laptop in the first place?   -rick

Stolen laptop holds Army Guard members' data (2009 - today) 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32304147/ns/technology_and_science-security/

..... then a 5-min Google search going back to 2005:

Lost laptop contains 1 million social security numbers (2009)
http://blog.internetnews.com/agoldman/2009/04/lost-laptop-okdhs.html

Laptop With Social Security Numbers Swiped  (2008)
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1597808/laptop_with_social_security_numbers_swiped/

Stolen Laptop Had 268,000 Social Security Numbers (2007)
http://wcco.com/local/stolen.laptop.social.2.603413.html

Lost IRS laptop stored employee fingerprints (2006)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13152636/

UC Berkeley police investigating theft of laptop containing grad  
student ID data (2005)
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/28_security.shtml
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