Re: Login Manager

2007-08-15 Thread t3st3r
Jeff Andros wrote: simple... display contact info(email, friend's phone number, etc) to return the phone at the login screen... This will be a pretty good reason even for quite dumb evildoers (who is not willing to return device to you on their own) to reflash device with default\empty

Re: Login Manager

2007-08-13 Thread Jeff Andros
On 8/10/07, t3st3r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I see no effective way to combine these 2 different goals.One is prevents access to data but this will enforce bad guys to do full reflashing.Killing your (unusable) data but getting working (usable) phone.Another approach makes guys to

Re: Login Manager

2007-08-11 Thread t3st3r
Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, This is w.r.t. having a login manager for OpenMoko. I am not sure how other PDA phones implement login access, but, in the Nokia 6210 classic, even without the SIM card, it simply allows access to the phone, organizer applications, and data. So, if the phone is lost

Re: Login Manager

2007-08-06 Thread Sander van Grieken
On 5 Aug 2007, at 16:11, Nkoli wrote: I think your implementation is great; it's logical and clean. The only thing I would change is the first boot part. Most phones, if not all, allow security conscious users to set some kind of password/pin to lock their phones. It should also be an

Login Manager

2007-08-05 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, This is w.r.t. having a login manager for OpenMoko. I am not sure how other PDA phones implement login access, but, in the Nokia 6210 classic, even without the SIM card, it simply allows access to the phone, organizer applications, and data. So, if the phone is lost, valuable information

Re: Login Manager

2007-08-05 Thread Eric Johnson
Rod Whitby wrote: Shakthi Kannan wrote: On 8/5/07, Giles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Passwords and pins are pretty fiddly, even tedious to enter. AFAIK, when you buy a SIM card, you are given a 4-digit PIN number, which is the only means of authentication between the

Re: Login Manager

2007-08-05 Thread Rod Whitby
Eric Johnson wrote: Rod Whitby wrote: This is not the case. I personally have a SIM card with *no* PIN on it. I could set a PIN on it if I chose to, but for that card I choose not to. Actually, there is always a PIN on the SIM it's just that in your case it has been disabled -- this is