Saw this in another forum earlier tonight. I'm leaving out the part mentioning a new patent-pending software that addresses all six security issues.

Also mentioned this article about prosecutors estimating only 100,000 hacked PCs at time of arrest, later to find 1.5 million hacked PCs when they tried to dismantle the botnet used for identity theft/fraud and blackmail.

Six security issues faced by Palm Treo users:

1. Palm Desktop passwords are ignored by other apps. Any text editor can view all the records you Hotsynced to your desktop PC. Even private records.

2. Outlook .PST files reveal its password to 3rd-party recovery programs found on the Internet and P2P networks.

3. On Windows, countless keyloggers can record everything you type into Palm Desktop.

4. Disk encryption software generally decrypt data for all programs. Any novice can simply use Explorer to drag your Palm directory to a removable thumb drive and view all the data when they get home.

5. File encryption software generally requires data to be temporarily decrypted to disk in order to use the file. NTFS can make copies of decrypted data when your security program tells NTFS to overwrite it.

6. Most data security software uses weak security in order to be allowed for sale globally--i.e. including stronger security means having fewer customers because US restricts exports and other governments restrict imports.

Something to think about when giving your name, address, birthday to someone who may get it stolen from their PC.