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Hi,

Something that hardly (if ever) comes up in reviews are the security features of the N900/Maemo. So maybe someone could help me out here:

1. Is is possible to encrypt the SD-filesystem, so that if your phone gets stolen nobody can view your photo's and other personal stuff located on the SD card? (e.g. does Maemo offer native encryption support or Truecrypt or someting)

2. Are apps running in some sort of sandbox that prohibits them from accessing your phone contacts, e-mails, sms message, gps location, and so forth without giving explicit approval? (e.g. like Windows UAC or pre-install security info like Android).

3. Is the webbrowser running in a sandbox or would hackers e.g. be able to exploit some bufferoverflow in the Flash engine and run remote code on the N900?

4. How can regular users be sure that the software they install won't cause mayhem (like having a backdoor) coz on Windows there's plenty of Antivirus/Spyware tools to keep lusers safe.. Is there a roll-back feature like WIndows/Mac has?

5 How safe is the personal info stored on the N900? I would rather like to believe that all personal info on the N900 would be in some kind of safe: so that only with approval third party software would have access to it..(or at least have an option to ask for access permissions first).

6. In case the N900 gets stolen, is it possible to remotely wipe the device and/or locate the device through SMS or Ovi? Like iPhone, Android, Blackberry etc offer as a service?

Last edited by Holyshit; 2009-11-26 at 23:52.
 

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