Ok, one Microsoft vote logged. Seems a natural.
Don't recall if it's been posted yet but Compaq has the Compaq Fingerprint Identification Technology PC Card along with a Whitepaper listed on their options and accessories for business page click the Notebook Security link on
www5.compaq.com or try this link, it might take you to the page directly.
www5.compaq.com
Also, the CES show starts tomorrow and goes on till the 9th. Toshiba and Compaq will be there. Don't know if they have anything to show for IDX, but on the outside chance... this website has a live interviews for the events. Toshiba (Bluetooth Technology 6 Jan @ 10:45am) and Compaq (no description 7 Jan @ 1:45pm)are on the show schedule, I'm guessing Pacific time due to the location. Clicking on the Live Webcast goes to a page that has a video screen so pictures may be shown... Again, and more than likely, has nothing to do with IDX...
netcitybroadcast.com is a link to the schedule.
Story on Identity theft. Best check your credit card bills if you belong to AAA.
Copyright 2001 Times Publishing Company
St. Petersburg Times
January 05, 2001, Friday
SECTION: METRO & STATE; Pg. 3B
LENGTH: 372 words
HEADLINE: Prison is the next stop for bold thief of identities
BYLINE: AMY HERDY
BODY:
After her arrest for theft and fraud, Elnetta Denise Brown kept right on taking people's information and
using it to enrich herself. Wednesday, a judge gave her three years.
TAMPA - Out of jail and awaiting trial on hundreds of identity theft and fraud charges, Elnetta Denise
Brown didn't miss a beat, investigators say.
The Tampa woman got a job at AAA, tapped into its national data base and began stealing more identities
from the auto club's members, they said.
Wednesday, Brown was sentenced by Hillsborough Circuit Judge Daniel Perry to three years in prison.
Brown, who faced multiple identity theft and credit card fraud charges, pleaded guilty to those charges as
well as a probation violation charge.
Prosecutors said the sentence is fair, despite the amount of turmoil Brown has caused her victims by
stealing personal information and charging thousands of dollars in purchases in their names.
"It's difficult for them, making all those phone calls, writing all those letters, doing everything you have to
do to get your credit straightened up," said Assistant State Attorney Mark Lewis.
In March, detectives said Brown had stolen the identities of 375 people, and they charged her with grand
theft, credit card fraud and identity theft. They said she had lived off the bogus credit for four years. She
pleaded guilty in September and was sentenced to 14 years of probation, restitution and court costs.
While that case was pending, Brown, 29, got a job at AAA Auto Club South in Tampa and was using the
auto club information to open lines of credit at stores such as JCPenney and Target, investigators said,
where she would buy gift certificates for hundreds of dollars and then sell them inside the malls at half
price.
She was arrested at a mall on Nov. 9. Detectives found several more gift certificates in her car, personal
information taken from AAA, credit card applications and newspaper ads for other jobs that entailed data
entry. Before the fraud arrests, Brown's only criminal history in Hillsborough involved a domestic
violence charge in 1994. She was sentenced to one year of probation on that charge. Brown's attorney,
Brian Gonzalez, could not be reached for comment Thursday.
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