mookie123
10-25-2002, 01:29 AM
a NY times article talking about the increasing use of Handheld as a way to pray infromation from the owner as alternative criminal investigaion source.
Palm OS bear the brunt as easily hackable toy. heh.
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Even when Palms are encrypted, they are remarkably easy to crack, said Joe Grand, the principal engineer at Grand Idea Studio, a product design firm in Boston, who has analyzed the security flaws in the Palm operating system.
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As with computer hard drives, deleting something on a hand-held doesn't make it really gone.
"Things people think are deleted are still retrievable," said Larry Gagnon, a detective with the Peel Regional Police in Ontario. "Whereas if you rip up a piece of paper and throw it out, it's gone for good."
In another case earlier this year, a Fortune 500 company in the Chicago area discovered that an employee was using his company-issued Palm to steal patent applications bit by bit. "It totally blew their mind," said Thomas Rude, a security consultant from Atlanta who was called in to investigate the case.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/24/technology/circuits/24palm.html?8hpib
Palm OS bear the brunt as easily hackable toy. heh.
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Even when Palms are encrypted, they are remarkably easy to crack, said Joe Grand, the principal engineer at Grand Idea Studio, a product design firm in Boston, who has analyzed the security flaws in the Palm operating system.
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As with computer hard drives, deleting something on a hand-held doesn't make it really gone.
"Things people think are deleted are still retrievable," said Larry Gagnon, a detective with the Peel Regional Police in Ontario. "Whereas if you rip up a piece of paper and throw it out, it's gone for good."
In another case earlier this year, a Fortune 500 company in the Chicago area discovered that an employee was using his company-issued Palm to steal patent applications bit by bit. "It totally blew their mind," said Thomas Rude, a security consultant from Atlanta who was called in to investigate the case.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/24/technology/circuits/24palm.html?8hpib