If you're interested in Google auth tokens, you might want to take a look at this: http://www.cyrket.com/asset/-2921053538409761500
I have not tried this out myself and do not know whether they store a password or just cache the token and ask the user for the password each time it expired. Christoph On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Teo <teomina...@gmail.com> wrote: > An auth token would be great, coincidentally it's a Google service i need a > password for. > @JP: Wouldn't a finder of a lost phone have access to the user's Google > account in the first place? From what i know, the signing in is done > automatically after setup. > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM, JP <joachim.pfeif...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Feb 7, 9:43 am, Christoph Studer <chstu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > (Note that rooted devices do not provide this security, because any >> > application can possibly become root and do whatever it wants on the >> > phone, AFAIK. But that's the user's risk when rooting a device.) >> >> Suppose user loses phone. Finder then roots it and uses adb to pull >> the database and preferences files -> Damage done. I consider it good >> practice to assume *anything* that's stored on the device is "up for >> grabs". >> >> Even with encryption things may be dicey. Finder may have success >> retrieving the original password through a reverse lookup. Just by >> what Google does (crawling the web), they've indexed a sizeable number >> of MD5 passwords for a reverse lookup. >> >> > > > > -- > Teo (a.k.a. Teominator a.k.a. Teodor Filimon) > site www.teodorfilimon.com | blog www.teodorfilimon.blogspot.com > GMT +2 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
