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Hello,

After read this post: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41435

I'm still thinking with myself how much secure are the informations stored in N900?

A lot of my important passwords are stored in my N900, like IM, Social Network, Emails, etc.

How these informations are stored? Plain Text? Encrypted? What algorithm they use to encrypt?

I have a very nice and powerful device, but in case of fall into wrong hands how can I preserve my important data secured?

It's very important to think about it, mainly if you use your N900 as a tool to enhance your work, like me.

A part of my life can be stored on this device, so I need to ensure that my important information can still secured in case of lost/theft.
 

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Please, help me to list all applications that request you to type your password.

Email configuration store passwords in plain text:

/var/lib/gconf/apps/modest/server_accounts

Connection to email servers are encrypted?

In case of emails. Just use your pop/imap/smtp secure connection, so you can use safely in any wi-fi open zone.

There are two points that I will check:

1- password will be stored in secure way?
2- the connection used to access this specific server is secured?

Last edited by jozeph; 2010-02-21 at 17:03.
 
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Originally Posted by jozeph View Post
1- password will be stored in secure way?
No, there is no platform support for such a thing and all apps store them in plaintext in GConf or text files.

2- the connection used to access this specific server is secured?
It is if you use SSL/TSL, or a challenge-response authentication mechanism.
 
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