Tom Zerucha wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>Further, the only use of the password is to unlock the Palm.  How many
>(really) keep their palm locked?

Also used to unhide hidden records.  There could be lots of data
you're not seeing even on an unlocked PDA w/o the password.

>And the greater problem is that hotsyncing exposes all the records

Yep.  So does a memory scanning app on the PDA itself, unless
the records are encrypted.

>OTOH, the palm is much more secure because it is with you and doesn't
>form a connection unless you tell it to


Yeah, but your desktop system isn't with you ... who's at your
desk right now looking into \Palm\xxx\backup\*.pdb ?        ;-)


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