Guess who wasn't using encrypted disks? MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE - Two laptop computers missing from Gen. Tommy Franks' headquarters were kept in an ultrasensitive locked and alarmed security room intended to safeguard some of the military's deepest secrets in the U.S. war on terrorism, officials said Wednesday. At least one of the laptops contained highly classified information, they said. The room is known in military shorthand as a SCIF, or Secure Compartmented Information Facility. The government uses them at installations worldwide and regulates their security features so closely that voluminous rules have been written on how they are to be built and protected. It sits deep inside the building that houses U.S. Central Command headquarters, which is running the war in Afghanistan and which is tightly guarded by troops armed with M-16s. The building stands inside the MacDill Air Force Base perimeter, which is well guarded, too. <snip> http://www.tampatrib.com/MGA4YPZ4M4D.html ....... Maybe Wen Ho Lee sold them to a pawn shop..