Originally Posted by
KevAZ
Ahh, but it is not secure known delivery method that will recover partially delivered emails and confirm the receipt by the intended receiver. Blackberry and GoodLink have the corner on this market.
There are loads of other security concerns that I won't waste bandwidth detailing here. However, I found it extremely curious that even for a consumer device, they didn't include an app that allows you to wipe memory and lock the device remotely. Treos and Blackberries both have this functionality either native or third party. It's just too damned easy to have an app to do this to leave it out.
I always wonder what people mean by exhange activeysnc not being a secure protocol? Do you mean, that the transmission through the cellular network is not encrypted? Or, that the protocol and security certificate structure is too easily hackable and that the blackberry protocol used is better?
As for remote wipe, this can be done with any device running exchange activesync 2003 sp2 or higher, from the exchange side. Granted, the device has to be pingable, so in theory someone would be able to shutoff transmission of the device and then could remove data. But, that is true of any device that isn't using a LOCAL password access, with lockout being a device wipe. Which, as you point out has been either native or via third party on many WM devices for years and years. But, I think that few people are enabling that security structure on the device level.