Dry Cleaners Claim Over 17,000 USB Sticks Were Left in Laundries in 2010

Let ’s front it : 99.9 per centime of surveys are just inbox spam , dreamt up by PR means in penury of a agile coverage localisation for their demanding clients , and with such a small syndicate of respondees that you ’d be better off asking your Facebook friends for their opinion instead . Not this one , though .

Oh sure , Credant Technologies(data protection expert , in their words ) may’ve only poll 400dry cleaners — and in the UK alone — but those 500 laundrettes are claiming they counted 17,000USB sticksthat were left rattling around their wash simple machine from forgetful customer . Supposedly this is a 400 per cent increase from 2009 ’s figures . I ’m just surprised they ’ve been counting for that long .

As most survey let in a choice quote from some like the Vice President of Marketing ( in this example , Sean Glynn ) , we can only offer him his 40 second gear of celebrity here : “ Inevitably , unsuspecting consumers lead the USB sticks behind , creating a potential risk for their employer if these equipment have proprietary information on them and end up in the hand of felon . ”

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