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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (180547)	3/30/2005 10:55:06 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Lizzie, didn't you go to Berkeley? Paul Otellini went to Berkeley - maybe this will put some pressure on oems to get a gsp id chip into their laptops and other devices sooner rather than later. Information regarding a security breach UC Berkeley police are investigating the theft of a campus laptop computer that contained files with the names and Social Security numbers of more than 98,000 individuals, mostly graduate students or applicants to the campus’s graduate school programs. The computer was stolen March 11, 2005, when an individual entered a restricted area of the Graduate Division that was momentarily unoccupied. Who is affected? Individuals who submitted applications for graduate school at UC Berkeley for the semesters between Fall 2001 and Spring 2004 Graduate students who registered at UC Berkeley from Fall 1989 through Fall 2003 Recipients of doctoral degrees from 1976 through 1999 Other small groups who will be notified individually newscenter.berkeley.edu You can place a fraud alert on your credit report free of charge. Contact the fraud department at any one of the three major credit bureaus: Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289 (http://www.transunion.com) Experian: 1-888-397-3742 (http://www.experian.com) Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 (http://www.equifax.com) The fraud alert requests creditors to contact you before opening any new accounts or making any changes to your existing accounts. As soon as the credit bureau confirms your fraud alert, the other two credit bureaus will be automatically notified to place fraud alerts, and all three credit reports will be sent to you free of charge. Q. What is a fraud alert? A. A fraud alert is a message that credit issuers receive when someone applies for new credit in your name. The message tells creditors that there is possible fraud associated with the account and gives them a phone number to call (yours) before issuing new credit. When you call the credit bureau fraud line, you will be asked for identifying information and will be given the opportunity to enter a phone number for creditors to call. Additionally, you are automatically removed from lists to receive unsolicited pre-approved credit offers when you put a fraud alert on your account. You can also stop those offers by calling 888-5OPTOUT. ----------------------------------------------------- Once there's a fraud alert, it's impossible for you to get "instant credit" which you probably don't need anyway. Regards, Amy J