Don’t Encrypt Your Windows Mobile 6.0 Storage Card!
By Will Park on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 8:56 PM PST In Announcements, Security, Windows Mobile
Like the headline says, do NOT use the new encryption feature in Windows Mobile 6.0 to secure your storage card’s data.A blog post on the Windows Mobile Team Blog confirms that, while encrypting your data poses no problems, when the device craps out on you so will the storage card.
Apparently, the device that was used to encrypt the storage card is the only device that has the encryption keys and therefore the only device that can access the data. This is great for security and all, but is problematic for data retrieval.
So guess what happens when you hard reset your new WM 6.0 smartphone or experience a catastrophic failure? Well, you lose all that precious data on the storage card too! It’s pretty much safe to say that encrypting those photos of your buddy passed-out-drunk on your couch is not worth the risk of losing ALL your data.
It seems nothing is safe anymore. The more functions one gets on a mobile unit the more vulnerable it becomes.
That’s the other side of the double-edged sword that is technology. They’ll fix it in the future…won’t they?
sure hope so! haha