I was merely responding to the posts of others who I felt misunderstood
the content and intent of our advisory by their responses. The goal of
my posts was clarification. @stake has been trying to reach developers
with our advisories because informing just security professionals of
security
: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: @stake ridiculousness
At 10:25 AM -0500 3/6/01, @stake Advisories wrote:
@stake does not sell any products so it is hard to see how this is a sales
pitch. We do mention some 3rd party encryption apps as examples for one way
to help mitigate this risk
You do not sell any products? You just do this out of the goodness of your
heart and rely on donations?
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From: "@stake Advisories" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: @
As a Palm developer you may think it is apples and oranges and that the
device is not meant to be secure, but many users don't know this. This
is why we references 2 news stories (there are many more) in the
advisory that show that people are attempting to use the device for
secure data
At 10:25 AM -0500 3/6/01, @stake Advisories wrote:
@stake does not sell any products so it is hard to see how this is a sales pitch. We
do mention some 3rd party encryption apps as examples for one way to help mitigate
this risk. If anything this is a sales pitch for Palm OS 4.0 which will
If you want a theft-proof car, you would equip
it that way.
My car has anti-theft measures built-in, and if someone could use a standard
pair of starter cables to circumvent this, I'd certainly want to know.
I don't know anyone that considers the Palm secure without
adding 3rd party
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Am I the only one here getting fed up with @stake's ridiculous "security
advisories" on PalmOS?
Not that what they are saying isn't true, but is it really a "security
issue"? So far, everything they have brought up is the equivalent of
taking a hard drive out
To: "Palm Developer Forum" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: @stake ridiculousness
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Am I the only one here getting fed up with @stake's ridiculous "security
advisories" on PalmOS?
Not that what they are sayin
cc:
palmos.com Subject: @stake
ridi
The bottom line of all security is that without physical security, you have
no security. Therefore, unless you chain the PDA to your desk inside a
secure area... well, you get the idea. What the original poster was trying
to point out was that the same security risks @stake keeps publishing about
If a Windows NT laptop had its floppy and CDROM drives removed and had a
non-removeable hard drive it would be similar to the hardware security
posture of a Palm device. Now if @stake published an advisory showing
that
the Windows NT logon password could be bypassed don't you think that
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