Re:Palm Pre Privacy Invasion
by lallysingh on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @07:56PM
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More interesting: is the transmission encrypted? Secured in any way other than "it's hard to sniff cell data?"
On another note, does anyone know if it's actually hard to sniff cell data? Could a well-hacked phone go promiscuous?
Let's try:
Random Palm employee gets a constant feed of your location == knows how soon you can be back home. He also knows you have enough money for gadgets like Pre, so you must have some valuable things at home... Easy burglary.
Yes - it might be a very unlikely scenario, but I'm pretty sure we could come up with a lot of others, more serious. If there is no real reason for them to have that data, they should not collect it: security 101 - close down everything, then enable things you need.