[ISN] Stolen Computer Search

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    http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/101403_nw_computertheft.html
    
    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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