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Qualcomm CEO Loses Laptop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyle Seaman)
Tue Sep 19 12:10:57 2000
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:06:09 -0400
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Jacobs told people at the conference that the IBM laptop, which he had
used for a slide show-type presentation focusing on Qualcomm's (QCOM)
wireless telecommunications technology, contained proprietary
information that could be valuable to foreign governments.
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"It's very disturbing to him," company spokeswoman Christine Trimble
said of the 66-year-old Jacobs, Qualcomm's chairman and founder.
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I guess he wasn't confident that the data was securely encrypted.
(As a side issue, at some companies the official policy on confidential
information -- dating from the 70s -- is that it must be kept in locked
file cabinets, and your office door must be closed when you are reading
it. I wonder what Qualcomm's policy is? )
