Qualcomm CEO's PC, possibly secrets, vanish
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According to the Associated Press, a portable computer belonging to Qualcomm Inc. founder and Chairman Irwin Jacobs -- which apparently contained valuablecompany secrets -- disappeared from a hotel conference room momentsafter he addressed a national business journalists' meeting. Jacobs told people at the conference that the IBM laptop, whichhe had used for a slide show-type presentation focusing onQualcomm's (qcom) wireless telecommunications technology, containedproprietary information that could be valuable to foreigngovernments.
If security on Jacobs' laptop was limited only to password protection -- rather than a more advanced encryption scheme -- it is "extremely unlikely that it will take any more than removing the hard drive and hooking it up to another computer to read all the files," said Shawn Abbott, chief technical officer of computer-security company Rainbow Technologies. -- Wall Street Journal
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