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I don't know about other people, but I don't keep anything on my laptop.
I simply access the company's network from outside (wherever I may be)
and have access to anything I need.
Why download anything to a laptop if this access is possible? If I am
on the security list of my company to have certain things, then I get
in. If not, then I don't. Is this such a complicated concept?
GT
Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone: (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
Cell: (323)243-1865
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, Virginia
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 9:45 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Raindrip - Armstrong employees personal info stolen
>
> LANCASTER, Pa. -- A laptop containing personal information on
> more than
> 12,000 Armstrong World Industries current and former employees was
> stolen last week. ... According to the letter, the laptop was in the
> vehicle of an outside auditor when it was stolen. ... The personal
> information includes:
>
> * Home addresses
>
> * Phone numbers
>
> * Social Security numbers
>
> * Pay
>
> (http://www.wgal.com/news/9571588/detail.html?subid=22100741&q
> s=1;bp=t)
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>
>
> It seems to me that, after a number of these incidents in the
> past year
> or two, someone would wake up to the fact that keeping this
> kind of data
> on a laptop is insecure. With the proliferation of external
> drives and
> flash/thumb/USB drives with gigabytes of capacity, it is much
> simpler to
> set policy requiring the use of the external drives or removable media
> for sensitive and private data. Of course those people who "lose"
> laptops will most likely also "lose" smaller media and
> drives. But the
> theft of a laptop should not result in the theft of the data.
>
>
>
>
>
> Ginny Jones
> (Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
> Records Manager
> Information Technology Division
> Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
> Newport News, VA
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