A survey by the Ponemon Institute in the US says that around 637,000 laptops are lost each year at US airports. This is a truly incredible number number - that's one lost every minute.
It says:
Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest US airports, and 65% of those laptops are not reclaimed, the survey said. Around 2,000 laptops are recorded lost at the medium-sized airports, and 69% are not reclaimed.
Laptops are most often lost at security checkpoints. Why the found ones are not reclaimed is another issue, because the security implications are frightening. If you are lucky, your laptop may be cheap, but what about the personal details stored on your hard drive?
The survey was paid for by
Dell, (neatly timed because they have just launched a security service that uses technologies such as GPS tracking to recover lost laptops).
