[PLUG] Android Tablets, Kindle Fire?

[Jason Barnett]

Whatever you decide on, please, please, please make sure it keeps the data
encrypted and a strong password used!
I love to see technology help to make companies and services more efficient,
but the implementation often overlooks security.  A cheap tablet, hacked to
do what you need will likely not be secure.  Even if you get one with
Android AND with the data encrypted, it will likely be painfully slow due to
the encryption unless it has a dedicated chip to encrypt/decrypt the data on
the fly.  I have yet to see such a tablet, not saying they don't exist, but
I haven't seen one.

Remember, whatever conveniences the technology provides, must not be at the
expense of the patent's privacy.

Jason

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:01:25AM -0700, Mike Cherba wrote:
> >     What size tablet are you looking for?  7" ish?  or 10/11" ish?  it
> would
> > help narrow down the choices a fair amount.
>
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > In a few months, after we get the web-based electronic medical
> > > records systems running at my wife's new office, we will deploy
> > > a few tablet computers.  I would like a camera (for scanning
> > > QR codes and photographing skin conditions), some kind of text
> > > data entry, secure communications, and some form of authentication
> > > and time-out, so that if the tablet is left lying about without
> > > activity it will lock, awaiting a password or some kind of
> > > biometric to unlock.  Wifi, locked to a single encrypted
> > > access point, no phone.
> > >
> > > Probably some kind of Android tablet.  Amazon just announced
> > > the $200 Kindle Fire, based on Android - while that probably
> > > has the appropriate hardware, it may be locked as a walled
> > > garden media platform.
> > >
> > > Probably too early to say what the Fire will permit.  If dear
> > > reader learns more about the implementation and linux usability
> > > of this device, please share your discoveries on this list.
> > > Other suggestions welcome - spending a few hundred dollars
> > > extra for something that is Just Right would be fine.
>
> I imagine a 7 inch tablet would be fine.  We are dealing with older
> eyes, but I assume we can reduce the amount data displayed rather
> than show a regular webpage scrunched to teeny-tiny.  But if we
> can't reformat the data, we may need 11 inch.  That helps not so
> much.
>
> Keith
>
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