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Europe
Security of the Dutch state at stake in theft of info
2005-06-05
machine translation, rough

Very sensitive information about the security of Europe's largest refinery, Shell Pernis (near Rotterdam), is in the hands of criminals(terrorists?).

According to Dutch news paper De Telegraaf a laptop computer containing the info was stolen from a car from one of Shell's security officials in March this year. Shell has tried to cover up the event. The laptop was stolen from the car on a parking lot near Antwerps in Belgium.

The Belgium police stated the "securitiy of the Dutch state could be at stake" if the info would come in wrong hands. The laptop has still not been found and Royal Dutch Shell does not want to comment on the case. The article also states the action was planned in advance. i.e. wasn't just a laptop theft - they were after that info
Posted by:Flavique Jineper9049

#5  Shouldn't that be "stolen from a car from one of Shell's former security officials in March this year"
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-06-05 23:36  

#4  I wish it were that easy, Moose. It's not hard to think of security problems that could take months to years to remediate. And in the meantime...
Posted by: James   2005-06-05 20:51  

#3  Certaintly, course the venue would change to the GoodFear country Club
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-05 19:49  

#2  The information cannot be operational, or it would long since be invalid, so it is either their own studies of structural deficiencies; their own plans on how a terrorist attack *could* take place, and how to mitigate it; or it could list security problems that they are unwilling to fix. In any event, the odds of any successful attack *now* drop to about zero, unless they are totally unwilling to improve their security to take the breach into account.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-06-05 14:23  

#1  Will we still be able to get Wonderful World of Golf?
Posted by: Jimmy Demaret   2005-06-05 12:18  

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