Londoners top world in leaving laptops in taxis

[Stella_Artois]

Thousands of valuable mobile phones, PDAs and laptops are forgotten in taxis every day, according to a survey out today. The international survey of 900 taxi drivers reveals that absent minded passengers are leaving sensitive information up for grabs because they fail to use password and encryption facilities on mobile devices.

In the last six months in London, 63,135 mobile phones (an average of three phones per taxi), 5,838 PDAs and 4,973 laptops have been left in licensed taxi cabs. Cab drivers in Helsinki, Oslo, Munich, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Chicago and Sydney also took part in the study which revealed wide international differences.

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UK taxi drivers reported finding a "harp, a throne, £100,000 worth of diamonds, 37 milk bottles, a dog, a hamster, a suitcase from the fraud squad and a baby" in their cabs. Extraordinary, if true

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/25/taxi_survey/

Utterly non-political, but interesting nonetheless.