For today's lesson in how not to learn from experience,

we turn to the Veteran's Administration, which has somehow or another managed to lose another laptop containing the personal information of thousands of veterans. OK, this one contained a couple of orders of magnitude less data, and was lost by a contractor instead of the agency per se, but still...

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Oh, but it gets better. This wasn't a laptop computer ... it was a desktop model. Have you ever tried to lose a desktop computer? That takes some doing.

BTW, the Washington Post is now printing the name of the analyst from whose house the laptop was stolen last spring.

One of the 26.5 million vets impacted by the first (that we know of) fiasco,
--Gerry