While your at it, start thinking about wearable computers and
security...
At least they are alot harder to leave behind, but many can do full
audio and video. With the new 25G Travelstar from IBM... I'll leave
the extrapolation of potential threats up to you. Many of which aren't
germain to this list.
I'm working on designing and building a wearable myself. I want to
incorporate security features from the start, but with standard off the
shelf components that isn't possible yet. Maybe in rev 2.
- Bryan
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>
> I respectfully submit you've got it wrong.
>
> In my planning, the primary security concern of Palm Pilots is indeed
> information theft. Plams are, to my knowledge, not a know virus
> vector (this
> will no doubt change). However, all of the users that I deal with who
> have Palms have loaded them with a plethora of contact info (e.g.
> Act!), meeting
> notes, expense reports (e.g. Quicken), etc. Much of this represents
> extremely sensitive information. Unfortunately, the Pilots are far to
> easy to steal
> or loose. I've even found users that should know better are using
> their Palms to store text passwords and/or generate S/Key passwords
> with
> insuficient protection. You can get a SecurID soft-token program for
> the Palm now as well.
>
> I firmly believe that IS groups need to take great care to address the
> info threat potential of the Palm. There are number of data
> protection measures
> that can be taken. Users should also be educated as to the threat.
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