On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:56:17 +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Track recall: if the device stores all your movements (or a rough
list of areas visited) for the last few days, you could recall where
you've been, when you came somewhere and when you left, which is
sometimes handy. This includes finding that place again if you don't
remember the way. Could also be used by sales agents, couriers etc to
automatically report where they've been.
You posted many intresting ideas, but this one should be well
implemented since it could infringe your privacy! So maybe this could be
applied if there's a kind of encryption of the data saved, or better, a
full disk filesystem encryption :P.
Any device with a web browser on it is a serious privacy concern anyway
because the browser stores cookies, cached pages, history, sometimes
passwords, etc, so encryption of sensitive data is something to think
about in any case. However, it's unclear to me how some form of encryption
could be implemented, more precisely, where the key material should come
from. Is the user supposed to type a password to log into the phone? Only
when turning it on or each time after a delay of inactivity? It would be a
serious usability drawback, and most users would disable encryption or set
a very weak password that's easy to type.
--
Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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