Information on Kerry Campaign Lost

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030315/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_california_3

["Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will 
be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases 
the information is more valuable than the hardware which 
processes it."  - Grace Murray Hopper     - WK]


By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press Writer 
March 15, 2003

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's campaign picked
up $900,000 at a California fundraiser, but lost a laptop computer
containing sensitive campaign information.

Campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said the laptop was stolen from his
car while he was eating lunch. Lehane said a waiter told him he saw a
middle-aged man pull up next to Lehane's car, smash a window, snatch
the computer and speed off.

"The information in the computer far exceeded the value of the
computer," Lehane said.

He filed a police report, and a witness wrote down the license plate
of the suspect's vehicle, but police determined the plate had been
stolen. Lehane said he didn't believe the computer heist was anything
more than a routine street theft.


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