Thread: Isn't the n900 secure?
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zimon is offline zimon
2010-03-30 , 17:24
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
However, if you store data as only readable by root, change the root password, and keep it on the internal eMMC's ext3 partition, then they couldn't get at it easily.
And if you use TrueCrypt to crypt the microSD-card, then maybe your data will keep on being private.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=560257

There may be bugs how security locked N900 can be opened without the security key. Hopefully those bugs are fixed at once if they are found.

Then there is the known weaknes in DEB-based software packages, which currently would allow Trojans rather easily by providing DEB-file out of repositories and lure people to wget and install it with dpkg.
 

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