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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.
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
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