tancerman

Just saw a news report on new yorks fox 5. They were talking about the safest hand held device. They were talking about smart phones, palm piolots, pdas, and black berries.

There main concern was people "hacking" these devices. I personally know that there are virtually no viruses and spyware for any hand held devices. According to fox there is. They showed a few smart phones, hp's cell phone pocket pc, and a black berry.

Finally, they said the black berry is the safest hand held device because it has no removable memory.

Howard2k

It's a good point. People think about passwords on power on, but how many people remember that it's useless having a power on password to protect sensitive documents, if the sensitive documents are in ROM or Storage Card.

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deftech

Originally Posted by Howard2k

It's a good point. People think about passwords on power on, but how many people remember that it's useless having a power on password to protect sensitive documents, if the sensitive documents are in ROM or Storage Card.

Yep, exactly. I don't keep any "secure" information stored on my PDA just in the event that I might lose it. And the few semi-private documents I have on there, I keep locked down and stored in the RAM. That way if someone were to find my PDA and not be able to get into it, a hard-reset would wipe out those documents.

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Frenchy

Originally Posted by deftech

Yep, exactly. I don't keep any "secure" information stored on my PDA just in the event that I might lose it. And the few semi-private documents I have on there, I keep locked down and stored in the RAM. That way if someone were to find my PDA and not be able to get into it, a hard-reset would wipe out those documents.

I do the same too :approve: and also I can add that my backup sitting on the SD card is also password protected. Remember that if you have one of these backup files available, the person just hard reset and restore.

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JMJSelect

i was just wondering is there a way to password protect a sd card? is there a program that can do this? i cant recall ever hearing of something that can protect the info on an sd card.

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deftech

Originally Posted by JMJSelect

i was just wondering is there a way to password protect a sd card? is there a program that can do this? i cant recall ever hearing of something that can protect the info on an sd card.

I don't know of anything that would protect the WHOLE card, as this would prevent your applications from accessing the files stored on it. I think what Frenchy was referring to was just to do it on a file by file basis, using an encryption program to encrypt the file and put a password in place.

Personally, I just do my backups directly to my PC. So unless someone gets access to that, they won't have my backup.

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