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Something tells me that he has trouble with the start button...

Original story here.

"U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese officials secretly copied
the contents of a government laptop computer during a visit to China by
Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez and used the information to try
to hack into Commerce computers, officials and industry experts told
The Associated Press.

Surreptitious copying is believed to have occurred when a laptop was
left unattended during Gutierrez's trip to Beijing for trade talks in
December, people familiar with the incident told the AP. These people
spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident was under
investigation."

But not to worry there couldn't have been anything on the laptop. They don't let the laptops with sensitive data out of the country right?

"It was not immediately clear what information on the laptop might have
been compromised, but it would be highly unorthodox for any U.S.
government official to carry classified data on a laptop overseas to
China, especially one left unattended even briefly. Modern copying
equipment can duplicate a laptop's storage drive in just minutes."

Good so nothing was on the laptop. Right? Right??

"In the period after Gutierrez returned from China in December, the U.S.
Computer Emergency Readiness Team - known as US-CERT, some of the
government's leading computer forensic experts - rushed to the Commerce
Department on at least three occasions to respond to serious attempts
at data break-ins, officials told the AP."

To quote Homer Simson... DOH!