- RE: The Digest V1 # 1118_2

- Tom Tom 6

- Psion encryption

Date: 26 Jul 2007 12:27:38 +0700
From: Daniele Squarci <address truncated>
Subject: RE: The Digest V1 # 1118_2

Melvin Woody wrote:
>> I think I'd better download a new version of the OS - since the ones on the CF card don't seem to work for either my Malaybook or my stepson's.  Can you remind me whence to download it?<<

Melvin,

You can find the Malaybook OS at Eddie Hasbrouck's website:
http://www.hasbrouck.org/netbook/#resources
Ciao

Daniele Squarci - Italy

Date: 26 Jul 2007 16:54:10 +0700
From: Ashley Burrows <address truncated>
Subject: Tom Tom 6

Hi all.
Answer to Itamar. I use Tomtom Navigatior 6 on my HTC Universal with great success. (O2 Exec)

I have just been to Portugal and the mapping was superb every little side road was there. I bought the maps of western euyope.

I also use the camera database again it works flawlessly.

With Tom Tom Home on my PC it displays my unit as a PU10 when connected.

Kind Regards

Ashley

Date: 26 Jul 2007 17:24:29 +0700
From: Timothy H.D. Williams <address truncated>
Subject: Psion encryption

I didn't know about this - it's old news, going back to 2003 - but a 
friend mentioned it to me this morning over a coffee:

Dated May 21, but worth mentioning: Italian police say they’ve been 
unable to read PGP-encrypted files stored on Psion PLCs by members of 
the Red Brigade. Much of the article is spent detailing the use of 
PGP by human rights groups, and has quotes from Phil Zimmermann 
defending PGP and crypto. InfoWorld seems a little unsure on the 
availability of PGP for the Psion, but there’s a version available 
here that seems to support most Epoc models.

The Psion devices were seized on March 2 after a shootout on a train 
travelling between Rome and Florence, Italian media and sources close 
to the investigation said. The devices, believed to number two or 
three, were seized from Nadia Desdemona Lioce and her Red Brigades 
comrade Mario Galesi, who was killed in the shootout. An Italian 
police officer was also killed. At least one of the devices contains 
information protected by encryption software and has been sent for 
analysis to the FBI facility in Quantico, Va., news reports and 
sources said.

[...]
The software separating the investigators from a potentially 
invaluable mine of information about the shadowy terrorist group, 
which destabilized Italy during the 1970s and 1980s and revived its 
practice of political assassination four years ago after a decade of 
quiescence, was PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), the Rome daily La 
Repubblica reported. So far the system has defied all efforts to 
penetrate it, the paper said.
[...]
Italian investigators have been particularly frustrated by their 
failure to break into the captured Psions because so little is known 
about the new generation of Red Brigades. Their predecessors left a 
swathe of blood behind them, assassinating politicians, businessmen 
and security officials and terrorizing the population by “knee-
capping,” or shooting in the legs, perceived opponents. Since re-
emerging from the shadows in 1999 they have shot dead two university 
professors who advised the government on labor law reform.

– InfoWorld,

http://vigilant.tv/article/3160/psion-pgp-thwarts-italian-anti-terrorism-police


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