Registered: Nov 1999
Location:
Posts: 145

What if SirCam threw around copies of your /palm/* file?

PDA Security is always in the news...latest from news highlighted in PDABuzz...
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/200..._palm_dc_2.html

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'Many users do not recognize that the information stored on
their PDA is open to compromise by unauthorized users, and
hence do not treat the data stored on their handhelds with the
same care as they do on their desktop,' they said in an article
for a security symposium sponsored by the USENIX Association, a
computer professional group.

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Modesto, CA USA
Posts: 599

Re: What if SirCam threw around copies of your /palm/* file?

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Can you imagine what a catastrophe SirCam would have been if it had targetted the various Palm and PPC backup folders instead of the "My Documents" folder??? Who's to say that's not the next one coming down the wire?

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I may be from the LEFT coast but that's not the correct political view in my mind!

Registered: Aug 2001
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Posts: 383

I once considered putting all my passwords on my Visor but decided against it due to the fact when I don't use my Visor i don't lock it and usually leave it lying around the house (my brother and dad like playing the games I downloaded on it even though my dad has a PalmIIIe). I use a program called Password Safe to store all my passwords on my computer. It encrypts the passwords in a database and all I have to do to get to them is to use 1 password (although I would perfer a thumbprint )

Registered: Dec 2000
Location: London, UK
Posts: 118

how about a retina scan? or why not both?

Hey, Techie2000, what do you think of all the palm apps that encrypt their data in the pdb?

Registered: Aug 2001
Location:
Posts: 383

I was looking for something like that and found a nice one called YAPS (Yet Another Password Saver). It uses 256 bit encryption and you can only open the pdb if you remember the password otherwise its useless. I think that program is pretty good as long as you memorize your password for it and not right it down. Also if you turn off your Visor while the program is open then you have to reenter your password and I feel it is adequet. And I don't like retina scans as I wear glasses and don't want to bother having to take them off (I have a very strong perscription). I am just against writing them down in the memopad (that can be tempting).