US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops

Slashdot's report for today contains a post about the US State Department's inability to account for up to about 1,000 laptops where as many as 400 of them belonged to the department's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program.

The department' deputy CFO Christopher Flaggs said the issue of the missing laptops could develop into a "material weakness", auditor-speak for "really bad news."

John Naland, president of the American Foreign Service Association said

"If the missing ones might have contained classified data, this could be serious."

See the full story in iTnews.