LANL’s Wishlist: 69 new laptops

The AP reported yesterday, based on some leaked information from POGO, that LANL has confirmed it missing 69 computers.  The press release said none of them had classified information which is handled entirely separately but there was a BlackBerry lost in a "sensitive foreign country."  This is probably a much smaller deal than unknowingly flying nuclear weaopns across the country but still may show up in reports due to the government about possibilty transferring control of the weapons complex to DoD.  With cyber warfare constnatly appearing on the top of lists for threats that are likely and that we are vastly unprepared for, basics tasks such as keeping effective inventory of computers and preventing theft of information from nuclear laboratories should be treated as a very big deal.