Stolen Va Laptop Recovered

[Guest DON20906]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/29/vets.security.ap/index.html

FBI is confirming that data on the machine was not accessed while it was out of the control of VA.

Edited June 29, 2006 by DON20906

[wayne]

I was wondering how the person that turned in the laptop knew what info was on it if it wasn't accessed. Also is it possible to tell if info has been copied?

[RockyA1911]

I'm still suspicious. WAS the laptop really recovered or did they just want to SAY it was recovered? It just don't get any better than that. The big scandal of it missing, being returned, and amazingly enough no information on the data base was copied. Anything too good to be true normally is.

And yes, information copied from the hard drive or copied from one drive to another can be retrieved from the hard drive, not all the info that was copied but a copy file name.

[Testvet]

He did not just happen to have that info at home, they sent it home with him in 2002 along with the laptop he was using, he has it in writing that he was authorized to take it to his house and work on it, he is not a level 5 or 6 type clerk, he worked directly for a political appointee, whose expertise is cutting program costs. He was just following his instructions from the Under Secretary that resigned, he told him about the loss of the laptop the next day, the Under Secretary is supposedly the one who failed to notify Nicholson for three weeks, etc. Firing the IT VA employee was wrong, like usual the people that should be going are the ones staying around.

This also gives Buyer the ammunition he needs to put all of the VA IT stuff under one man, the way he wanted to do it last year, but his "friend" quit because the other people at the VA didn't play the way he wanted to. Maybe he can talk him into coming back and giving him the keys to the kingdom. Instead of getting rid of Nicholson and getting a real "manager" in there, we are going to get another layer of political cronyism, and that is never good for the veterans.

[mssoup1]

Testvet,

Where did you find this information? Do you have a link to it?

mssoup1