Mobile Security at 1src
Following along our previous discussion about the mobile office, 1src explores the issue of mobile data security. If you have a mobile device and carry any amount of personal information on it, this is a very good article to get you thinking about tools and processes. Here is a snippet:
...Today’s mobile devices allow us to store gigabytes of data in them and on the tiny removable (read: easily lost) memory expansion cards that go along with them. When does having our data with us become having too much data with us? Should we be cramming our devices with our personal and business data? Should we be keeping everything on our desktops and corporate servers? Or, does the answer lay somewhere in the middle...
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posted by Antoine @ 10/31/2006 11:42:00 PM
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That's an interesting article. They ask questions like "What if we lose our devices? What then? Sure we have copies of the data on our computers, but what about the data that is on the device and memory expansion card. Who is now in control of our personal information? How embarrassing will the release of that data to the public be? What is the risk of keeping all of that data with us all of the time?", which seems slightly fatalistic but they're valid questions.
Because I work as a Network Administrator for a fair sized ISP here in the mid-west, privacy kind of takes on a different meaning to me. Simply stated, there is none. I always preach about responsibility of ownership, and "due diligence" (as much as I don't care for the phrase). If you're being responsible about your device, and have it backed up, and do due diligence and use things like poison pills if you're that paranoid, I think you can rest fairly easily.
Personally, I use Splash ID as a "privacy manager" and have used it since version 1 back on my Palm III or V (I've forgotten now) and ALL of my sensitive information is kept in there. Not only my own user names and passwords for no less than 2 dozen different systems that I log into at work, but user names, passwords, and phone numbers of many of the customers and friends that I visit on a regular basis to assist with computer repair and so forth. Frankly, it's the almost the only unique password I have.
I tend to look at privacy a little differently than many people I know. As a Christian, I ought to be living a pretty transparent life, and I ought to have some good accountability in my life and there shouldn't be anything (I think) that's so closely guarded a secret that I couldn't show my pastor if no one else. And I wouldn't have a problem with him looking at my bank account and seeing where I spend money, or at my internet cache and seeing where I go on line. So really, the only things that I want to keep secret are other peoples data, and I think I do due diligence with that.
Anyway, perhaps that'll provoke a comment from someone.
Grace and peace,
A. Jay
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