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An IBM announcement in Edupage, 28 January 1999
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P. J. Ponder)
Fri Jan 29 11:33:35 1999
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:20:12 -0500 (EST)
From: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: cryptography@c2.net
This is a snippet from today's Edupage:
SECURITY-CONSCIOUS THINKPADS
IBM is offering a new feature on its popular ThinkPad laptops -- a two-layer
security system to protect the mobile machines and their files. The IBM
Smart Card Security kit provides software that automatically encrypts data
as it is stored on a computer, and a personal ID smart card that carries the
encryption key for decoding the information. In addition, an Asset ID tag
prevents access to data if the computer has been removed without
authorization from the designated premises. Companies can place sensors
around doorways that will inactivate the computer the computer through a
wireless radio-frequency transmitter. "Now you can tie the face to the
asset," says Sam Dusi, IBM's worldwide marketing director for ThinkPads.
"It's not just who left the building but what they left with." According to
the Computer Security Institute, companies incurred losses of more than $11
million in stolen laptops during 1996 and 1997. (TechWeb 28 Jan 99)
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