Laundromats - Mega USB Black Hole (No Surprise There)

Well, you've just run out of people to blame for those extra charges on your credit card or your competitor edging your company out of the market. Studies keep pointing the finger at you, well us, the end user as a major source of identity theft and fraud due to misplacing our digital goodies. Most recently, laundromats seem to be a flash black hole eating up a total of around 9,000 USB flash drives each year.

Another study estimated that nearly 200,000 phones, PDAs and laptops were lost in a single cab company's cabs each year. Countless business secrets and personal info is flying into questionable hands due to sheer forgetfulness. IT departments are racing to come up with strict new policies and solutions to protect their intellectual property but technology is outpacing security. They are approaching microscopic are nearly indestructable and camoflaged. This is ignoring the fact that some of them are big enough to smuggle out your entire email system on a single drive. So hang onto those drives the job you save may be your own.