The discussion about AventVoice sparked a line of thought I wanted to explore further.
I have not until this point, in all the years of having Palm devices and all the more recent years of having data-capable Treos thought much about the prospect of an application - from whatever developer, small to large - having the unfettered ability to send data off of the Treo to a remote system. Any application could, for example, raid my address book or calendar for whatever information I keep there. Now, I don't keep much in the way of private information in my address book anymore since I'm using hosted Exchange and didn't want my credit card and other information stored there (that's why I'm using eWallet currently), but still would not want all of my contacts, calendar and task information sent to somewhere else for perusal by someone else. That's one of the reasons I don't prefer Gmail since it was reported by reliable sources that Google searches and indexes all emails placed there. Anyway, is this line of thought new to me, or has this occurred to someone else and are there applications that can control which applications are allowed to send data over the data connection? A firewall for the Treo (at least for outbound traffic). I don't think much of antivirus programs for the Treo, but a firewall might be needed, sooner rather than later! Thoughts? I looked online and found nothing about Treo or PalmOS firewalls, even in concept, except in one post written in Chinese, which I don't read!! :-) Cheers, Don [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
