The classic lets bring secure information to a insecure location/enviroment issue always crops up. Usualy funny, usualy lamentably stupid. This fits into the

The classic lets bring secure information to a insecure location/enviroment issue always crops up. Usualy funny, usualy lamentably stupid. This fits into the whole group of peole who are not hackers attending a hackers conference. All trades have there initiation practices, in the building trade noobies are asked to go to the store for a long wait/weight etcetc. Why did the SEC have employee's at the event who were not properly trained, would you send the head of HR to a financial meeting, no. Security is an illusion after all at a point in time and whilst a system is secure today, tomorrow it may not be due to some expliot and with that was not exactly secure the day you thought it was secure. With that the best security is when you don't need to secure something at all. The need for laptops with such data in such area's is sily. Sadly until somebody invents proximity based data encryption which only allows you to access that data at certain locations, whilst not foolproof, it would help. Take the data outside area's it should not be then you can't read it. Still people just don't think, imagine if they had a iPhone or other mobile with lots of office pictures, that is harmless to many but useful to others and with that is data that gets overlooked much more.