At 8:23 PM -0700 9/21/99, Dan Geer wrote:
> The Palm's security model is, by most accounts I've seen, non-existant.
>
>The issue is the lack of memory protection, i.e., that there is no
>protected space for keying material. Visor is said to use the PalmOS
>as is, so that is not a magic wand. Of course, if your OS has no memory
>protection, you can always rely on yet another external hardware
>device, as has already been mentioned.
The other solution is to run you Palm in "system high" mode, where all
applications are trusted. (Since the only application I have added to my
Palm is "Life", I could easily run it that way. Now all I have to do is
gain trust in the built in applications.)
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