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Finnish authorities ponder emergency messaging system South Korea launches world‘s first broadcast to mobile phone service Smartphones with server connection: Do not store critical data
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Smartphones with server connection: Do not store critical data
"Credit card numbers, password lists, or business documents should not be on an external server," advises Bernd Theiss, head of the PDA and Laptop department at the Stuttgart telecommunications newspaper "connect." U. S. hotel heiress Paris Hilton made headlines recently when a hacker copied photos, notes, and contact data from Hilton‘s "Sidekick" Smartphone, offered by T-Mobile USA. The stolen material was then spread over the Internet. The Sidekick works on the principle that all e-mail messages, address book entries, calendars, and photos are stored both on the device and on an Internet server linked up through a GPRS connection. They can then be viewed and changed by any user able to provide the user name and password. "The security on the Sidekick is hence only as good as the level provided for the server," Theiss says. The Internet password hence also affects the security of the Sidekick. "As in all areas, it‘s important to keep the password secret, to change it regularly, and to not use simple words," advises Joerg Carsten Mueller. His cellular firm, E plus, offers service in Germany for the HipTop, the international version of the device. |
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