The Government Accountability Office slammed the Bush administration in a report released July 29 saying 70 percent of laptops, notebook PCs, and mobile devices used by federal agencies in the executive branch are not encrypted or secure.

The GAO report comes more than two years after the Department of Veterans Affairs reported a laptop stolen and the names and Social Security numbers of 26 million veterans were exposed, in the second-largest data breach on record. Today only 30 percent of federal agency laptops and mobile devices are using encryption to protect data, according to the report.