It only took me 4:3o minutes to
- remove the disc from my “HAL”-laptop (which has some protection facilities activated)
- mount the disc in my Debian installation (Linux)
- viewed all the contents of the disc.

Amazing…

Kind regards,
Dennis

Security comes from a combination of restricted physical access and encryption. Remove either and you no longer have security.

That said, portable devices are a practical necessity until all storage is recentralized and there are ubiquitous thin clients that can connect to any VPN (or whatever its successor would be in the future). There’s always some risk of loss or misuse by others, so there’s no good reason not to mandate encryption for files on portable devices. If the encryption keys are reasonably long and irregular (and the encryption algorithm up-to-date), it’d take much longer than 10 minutes to crack any data file.

No, I have not used MS Outlook instead I use PocoMail (http://www.pocosystems.com)

Kind regards,
Dennis

I forgott to say thank You in my previously comment for the nice links – highly appreciated

Kind regards,
Dennis

“Wasn’t the old Microsoft binder close to what you are blogging about”

Not in my opinion.

“How can the webbased google effort be used by people whose business requires confidentiality?”

This question may have several answers:

# Large corporates will always use their own solutions and never depend on any outside vendor.

# File servers can be used where business require more control of the stored information.

# Well, this questions seems always be raised when discussion scenarios like web based services.

The use of laptops and hand computers etc expose the corporates to an extremly (and unnecessary) risks to which it will require expensive solutions (to no avail as security is always one step behind the dark forces..)

Recently a test was conducted at “HAL” where a specialist showed how all securities could be bypassed within 10 minutes on a laptop. What is the confidentiality rate to use these tools?

Kind regards,
Dennis

Thanks for those links (the 0awards and thinkfree). Lots to look at. {grin}

I’ve checked out thinkfree.com, and it’s similar to what you were looking for from MS. It’s Java-based and not AJAX, but it definitely looks promising.

Regards,
Jake

Here’s a good list of some cutting-edge web-based services:

http://web2.0awards.org/

A few that I use are basecamp & meebo.

Regards,
Jake