Private data protection.

[Vinc Duran]

I like the stolen phone sms message.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Ilja O. <vrghost at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Fink
> <buffoon at buffoon.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > Ilja O. wrote:
> >>
> >> 1) Auth using PIN number (this requires encrypted image presence in
> >> phone file system by it's boot time end -- not reallyl convenient if
> >> SD card is used).
> >>
> >
> > IMO encrypting Data with the PIN Number is not such a good thing, because
> > the possibilities of different keys are definately not high (max 8
> digits,
> > only numbers). A better solution would be to save the PIN on the
> encrypted
> > storage and automatically read it.
> >>
>
> I don't see point in making secure protection from somebody that has
> stolen phone to obtain your data, since anything that phones' CPU will
> be able to encrypt/decrypt without draining battery much faster than
> it should be. I'm telling about making protection from phone thief,
> that simply has stolen your phone and is now trying to power it up and
> obtain any easily accessible plain data. And for this aim almost any
> encryption will do.
>
> To protect yourself from data thiefs the best way, imho, would be to
> program a daemon that wipes out all phone memory when phone receives
> an SMS message with predefined contents.
>
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