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Article: Laptop prevents sensitive data theft: Computer from a King of Prussia firm works only when linked to a network.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2006
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Byline: Akweli Parker
Oct. 9--With the business data and personal dirt residing on laptop PCs often more valuable than the machines themselves, it's no wonder that headlines about stolen corporate and government computers have created such a furor. Devon IT in King of Prussia has responded with a laptop that has most of the sensitive stuff -- namely, the hard drive -- removed. "I saw all these laptops being stolen," Joe Makoid, president of Devon IT, said. "The exposure to data loss is terrible."
The Commerce Department disclosed last month that it had lost 1,137 laptops since 2001, including 672 at the Census Bureau, the primary collector of ...