August 4, 2006

Locking Up the Laptops

By VINCENT KIERNAN

Colleges move to encrypt confidential information stored on mobile devices

Becky King's laptop used to make her nervous. No longer. As director of information systems and services at Baylor University, Ms. King depends on her laptop to let her work just about anywhere and at any time.

But the computer also carries lots of confidential information, such as personnel files and Social Security numbers in old reports from when the university used the numbers as identifiers. It could

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