Copyright © 1994 Jeremy Wyld. All rights reserved.

Safe Guard v1

Safe Guard is a utility that allows you to password protect your PCMCIA cards.  In order to use the card, the person inserting the card must enter the password.

In order to use, tap the Safe Guard icon in the Extras Drawer.  Tap the "Password" button and enter your password to use.  Now whenever the card is put into a Newton, a password screen will open asking for the password.  Upon entering the proper password, Safe Guard will open itself if someone placed the card into a Newton.  Safe Guard will not open if there is not a log of bad attempts.  You may tap any of the bad attempts in the log to get more info about the attempt.  To turn off password protection, set the password to nothing just as in the "Personal" prefs.  Once you close Safe Guard, you do not have access again to the log.  Otherwords, it is removed when Safe Guard is closed.

Use of Safe Guard is free of charge. Please pass it around.


Send comments and bug reports to:

Jeremy Wyld
USMail:            1004 E. Market, Iowa City, IA 52245
InterNet:         jeremy-wyld@uiowa.edu

Known Bugs:

 - Safe Guard currently assumes one PCMCIA slot.  This will change.

 - Safe Guard does not remove the password on removal of Safe Guard.
 - WORK-AROUND: Tap "Password" and set the password to nothing.

 - Safe Guard currently does not encrypt the password.  Yes I know...gripe, gruble, etc.  I will change this in a later release.  First, lets get password protection on the cards.

 - Safe Guard does not resize the password screen to the bounds of the Newton.  Therefore it assumes the MP or EP screen.  I will change this too.  I am busy now and thought I should get it out now and do the cosmetic things later.


Version History

v1 - first public release
vX.XX - more things to come...

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