[umgud]

Thanks. Sounds like a slippery slope that could really be abused in the wrong hands (Gov’t).

[Billthedrill]

There is an additional potential vulnerability. It has been claimed that information so gathered is passed in plaintext. Sprint, at least, states that no, it is encrypted. However, if it is, in fact, plaintext, then anyone intercepting the phone signal who owns a packet sniffer can read it. Not just the vendor. I am hoping fervently that this claim is inaccurate and am waiting to find out.

I work in an IT environment. What this has done is to take a truly wonderful technical capability right out of my hands - this beautiful and very expensive device is now useless for anything requiring a password because I can't guarantee that the latter is protected.

Incidentally, I left out one very big vendor in my list in the previous post - Research In Motion (aka Blackberry).