Okay, so I admit it - I'm a total gadget whore.

I saw the preview of the new Palm "Lifedrive", and I'm in absolute technology love. But what got me thinking was the following marketing picture:

With 4GB of storage, anybody with one of these can very easily carry the entire contents of their desktop around with them. I know that my first thought was: "cool, I can do all of my work without pulling out my laptop".

Of course, that means all my work must be there. And I note that the marketing above doesn't say anything about file encryption.

This gets me wondering - as we face a more complete set of mobility, does security become even harder? These are the same questions that we asked when laptops came around, and laptop encryption has been slow on the uptake, for sure. (Although, I must say, Mac has made it really easy - FileVault rocks)

A laptop is a whole lot harder to misplace than a PDA. And a whole lot harder to steal.

As a gadget geek, this is damn cool. As a security guy, this makes me damn nervous. Where's the optimization point between those two?