I think the study is flawed. If not, why hasn't any of us heard of this auction of thousands of unclaimed laptops? What are the odds that none of them has sensitive information and wouldn't have made the news?
And yes, most definitely, if someone were to 'forget' a laptop at an airport I would expect *whoever* finds it to go out of their way to reunite it with the owner, not just take it home and sell it, or throw it in an auction bin. And how are we to believe even hurried travelers are going to forget something as heavy and obvious as a laptop??? You might forget a kid, but not a laptop. I have yet to see a pile of forgotten laptops at any TSA screening area. Much more likely, since the study includes it, is theft. And that's why so many people say they aren't going to try to get it back - because there's basically nothing they can do, not because they left it with TSA. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
