More Than 600,000 Laptops Lost Each Year At US Airports
Washington DC - Travellers lose nearly 637,000 laptops a year at U.S. airports every year, 
according to a new survey by the Ponemon Institute. At 36 of the largest airports, a staggering 10,278 laptops are lost/stolen every week. Medium-sized airports have approximately 2000 lost or stolen laptops at week. Amazingly, the survey showed that 65% to 69% of the missing laptops are never reclaimed, but that’s probably because 77% of the victims say they have no hope in recovering the laptop.
That’s A LOT of missing laptops, but here in the office were asking ourselves how do you lose a laptop in the airport? Ponemon analysts say most of the laptops go missing at security checkpoints and I can understand the highly stressful situation of taking off all your belongings while nervously waiting for your upcoming flight, but when you pop your laptop on the conveyor belt, it has to come out the other side right?
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So, what happened to the lost laptop? Are they sent back to the owner or the thrift shop?
Typing/Reading this at an airport....
Something is amiss in this study.
Found it:
They counted hotels, rental cars and all sorts of other places. Its an account of the entire business travelers journey.
Sorry Humphrey but you misquoted and misunderstood the article.
Most are stolen. You turn around for one second and bam. Lost? LOL!
I think the original article clearly states on airports. The quote you used MUST NOT be in actual connection with the survey. Most probably it's just an statement on the FTC web site.
A person is smart, but the problem is people are stupid idiots. They can't even remember what they did 5 minutes ago, I mean come on! Hell I say they deserve to lose their laptops if they are that dumb.