Most of us use Personal Palm Pilots to manage our time and to store information. One inherent risk of loading confidential data in a PDA is protecting that information in case of loss or theft. Many users fail to password protect their PDA or lose the PDA when the unit is not in secure mode.

It is recommended that users do not store personal or critical business information on a PDA and avoid sending or receiving sensitive messages that you do not want recorded. Messages sent to and from PDAs can be retrieved by the service provider in their entirety, and that confidential message text can be stored in a database forever, making that information available to others.