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Posted on 10/15/2003 8:09:23 AM PDT by all4one
Stolen Computer Search
October 14, 2003 — The search goes on for a stolen laptop computer, a computer that contains sensitive information about security at all the commercial airports in the U.S. It happened during an airport security training seminar at the Embassy Suites near Philadelphia International.
Police and the FBI have not located that computer nor have they made any arrests. I am told it contains sensitive information about security at the nation's 429 airports. A source tells Action News they do not believe this was the job of a professional who knew what was on the computer, but someone who thought they might be able to get some good cash for it at a pawnshop.
Police and FBI agents swarmed into the Embassy Suites hotel on Bartram Avenue near the airport shortly after the theft. Lockheed Martin under contract to the Transportation Security Administration was conducting a training seminar for 25 new screeners hired at Philadelphia International. The instructor was using a laptop computer to project security procedures onto a large projection screen. Around noon the group broke for lunch leaving the computer behind.
FBI agents and police rounded up about 50 hotel employees, locked them up in a conference room as they tried to pin down the person who stole the Transportation Security Administration computer. The employees contacted their union.
Kevin Smith/H.E.R.E. LOCAL 274:
"I got a call at 6:30 from the members." "And what did they say?" Kevin Smith/H.E.R.E. LOCAL 274:
"That they were being restrained, held prisoner." Union business agent Kevin Smith was hopping mad that his members were being held for such a long period of time, especially those who had kids they were not able to pickup from daycare. If there's a piece of equipment missing, that's one piece of equipment, however they are restraining 50 people, that means they have 49 innocent people."
Meantime questions were raised as to why a computer with sensitive information about security at the nation's airport would be left behind at a conference during a lunch break. A TSA spokesman says the instructor had locked the door but didn't realize there was a back door that had been left unlocked. Authorities seem to think whoever took it works in the hotel.
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The article also refers to theft of other laptops with sensitive info about Australian Customs. They were stolen from Sydney airport.
Australian authorities believe that it may be terrorists trying to get info to help with operations and/or smuggling materials for operations. In one of the thefts an electronic swipe card was used.
I'll bet they were more than just mere union employees. They were probably illegal alien, union employees.
You must know by now that illegal aliens are above all U.S. laws in their efforts to commit the crime that Americans are too lazy to commit.
Never mind the darned pilot's uniforms, anybody got a cute kinky sister who looks good in a stewardess' outfit?
Ooops! I meant flight attendant!
Maybe a bad precedent. A past FBI director once lost his own laptop with sensitive data under similar circumstances. To be fair, he'd have to be let go as well....
Or maybe that would be an EXCELLENT precedent and example!
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