Sunday, February 27, 2005
California Secretary of State's PDA Stolen
Posted by Janak Parekh in "NEWS" @ 08:30 PM
"Outgoing Secretary of State Kevin Shelley told San Francisco police that his Glen Park home was burglarized over the weekend by someone who bypassed valuable property in favor of his state-issued handheld computer....Shelley's personal digital assistant device was said by employees to be one of his most prized possessions. He reportedly bragged to them so often about using it to raise $3 million in donations for his 2002 campaign for secretary of state that they came to dub it "the Palm Pilot speech."
Handheld security is no longer a joke, and if you're not careful you could be the next victim of information theft via your handheld -- not only via online mechanisms a la Sidekicks, but actual physical theft as well. Unfortunately, with PDA/Smartphones, it becomes clumsy to lock the device all the time. As a compromise, I use eWallet for any seriously private information and make sure to be obsessive about "patting down my pockets" and keeping my PDAs close to me. How do you protect yourself?
Handheld security is no longer a joke, and if you're not careful you could be the next victim of information theft via your handheld -- not only via online mechanisms a la Sidekicks, but actual physical theft as well. Unfortunately, with PDA/Smartphones, it becomes clumsy to lock the device all the time. As a compromise, I use eWallet for any seriously private information and make sure to be obsessive about "patting down my pockets" and keeping my PDAs close to me. How do you protect yourself?
