The TSA is doing a great job at keeping data safe.

First it was a laptop with personal info of TSA employees, now it's laptops with HazMat commercial drivers. God only knows what other laptops have disappeared that have not been reported about in the news.

This shows more irresponsibility on behalf of the TSA and they want the public to trust them keeping data secure with "Secure Flight".

Important information should never be stored on the local drive of a laptop, period. I personally make a habit of saving all sensitive information on a network drive on a server. I also have my laptop setup so that I can access the network drive when I am on the road through a secure VPN. This way if something does happen to the laptop, I don't lose any data. Secondly, if CBP or Customs in another country decides to inspect my laptop, they won't find much of anything.

Sad thing is, this isn't a very difficult practice. When on my network, my network drive just mounts as if it were any other drive - only difference is that it is physically in another room and on a machine that not only gets backed up, but has redundant systems and items (including hard drives) can be hot swapped.

The TSA is a big charlie foxtrot when it comes to secure data storage.