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Secure PDAs

Posted by michael on from the keeps-honest-men-honest dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article at LinuxDevices.com introduces a unique Linux-based 'secure PDA' co-developed by IBM and Consumer Direct Link, Inc. (CDL). The Paron MPC combines the functions of a PDA, Bluetooth wireless access, cellular telephone, and biometric fingerprint recognition, along with a security-oriented hardware/software architecture. The device is claimed to be the world's first handheld wireless device with built-in biometric user authentication. The Paron is based on an Intel StrongARM SA-1110 processor and uses a Linux 2.4.x kernel and provides a GUI environment and PDA app suite based on Trolltech's Qtopia and Opera's browser much like the Sharp Zaurus."

2 of 111 comments (clear)

  1. Re:BioMetric User Identification by mumblestheclown · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "If MS did biometric authentication you can bet they'd store all our info in a central database somewhere."

    And since when did slashdot become a place for slippery-slope knee-jerk microsoft bashing? ...

    Oh, wait..

  2. letter to ed. by nege · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Dear Senior Taco,

    Can we please change the handheld story picture to at least a palm V, which is dead sexxy?

    Thanks
    nege