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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE A laptop with personal information on 291 employees and job applicants, including scans of their fingerprints, was lost recently along with its carrying case after being checked as luggage on a commercial-airline flight...
...injuring 10 others. But because of the very small quantity of explosives, it did not take down the plane. A month later, Yousef accidentally started a fire in his apartment while working with the explosives. The Bojinka plan was thwarted when police arrived to investigate and discovered a laptop containing details of the plot...
...types of threat may dictate a radical change in the security regime governing air travel, in which passengers may be required to subject themselves to substantially longer delays for pre-flight scrutiny. The potential to hide explosive components in everything from toothpaste and contact-lens solution to laptop computers and other personal electronic devices may also demand rules that make air travel even less comfortable than it currently...
...also try to webcam at least twice a day, and it allows us to approximate a home life. We can do "normal" things like have a meal together. She will sit down at the dining table with her laptop and webcam, and I will bring my plate to my work desk. Because of the four-hour time difference, I'm usually having a late lunch at her dinnertime. On special occasions - our wedding anniversary, my birthday last month - she will light a candle at her end, and I will play some appropriately mushy music on iTunes. (Hey, war correspondents...
...Shortly before noon, Joe Mantovani, 22, walked in with his laptop. When told that the Internet was out, he sighed in frustration. Barnes and Noble, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Panera and the local library had also lost their connection, he said...