Via Microsoft’s Steve Lamb and the BBC:
4,073 laptops, 5,838 PDAs and 63,135 mobile phones were left in London taxi seats in a recent six month period according to a survey by the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association - according to the BBC that works out at three devices per cab on average.
So now all we need to find out is how many passengers with laptops, PDAs and/or mobile phones used a taxi in London during that six month period, and this data would actually be usable!
Of course, if you’re really looking for information to use as LEF numbers, you might already have it. Especially if you’re like the Department of Energy and you keep tabs on these things (from Wired):
Losing a cell phone happens from time to time. But losing a laptop is another thing entirely. It kind of goes beyond absent-mindedness. So what do you call losing 1,427 laptops in six years, as the Energy Department has done?
But you know, at least they have good user awareness documents.
- If your DOE laptop or associated removable storage media is stolen, lost, or missing, and if it contains Personally Identifiable Information (PII) you must report the loss within 45 minutes of when you learn of it to your system support Help Desk (for DOECOE, contact the CSC Help Desk at 301-903-2500)
Andrew Denny and his crescent fresh Dell laptop:
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