mommalina
08-30-2006, 07:39 PM
It looks like you have to apply the same security solution
to a cell phone you wish to discard as you have to apply to
a hard drive -- a sledge hammer and then some ..... :smash:
.... . :flame: .... :lock1:
Lina
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_re_us/betrayed_by_a_cell_phone
AP: Don't keep secrets on cell phone
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 30, 10:33 AM ET
EXCERPTS:
WASHINGTON - Don't tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adulteryCurious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.
The other phones contained:
_One company's plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract.
_E-mails about another firm's $50,000 payment for a software license.
_Bank accounts and passwords.
_Details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker's utility payments.
The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages — a stack of printouts 8 feet high.
"We found just a mountain of personal and corporate data," said Nick Magliato, Trust Digital's chief executive.Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, a respected computer security expert, said phone owners should decide whether to auction their used equipment for a few hundred dollars — and risk revealing their secrets — or effectively toss their old phones under a large truck to dispose of them.
What about a case like the Lothario whose affair Trust Digital discovered?
"I'd run over the phone," Zatko said. "Maybe give it an acid bath."
to a cell phone you wish to discard as you have to apply to
a hard drive -- a sledge hammer and then some ..... :smash:
.... . :flame: .... :lock1:
Lina
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060830/ap_on_re_us/betrayed_by_a_cell_phone
AP: Don't keep secrets on cell phone
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Wed Aug 30, 10:33 AM ET
EXCERPTS:
WASHINGTON - Don't tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them. Second-hand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers and bank account passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adulteryCurious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.
The other phones contained:
_One company's plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract.
_E-mails about another firm's $50,000 payment for a software license.
_Bank accounts and passwords.
_Details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker's utility payments.
The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages — a stack of printouts 8 feet high.
"We found just a mountain of personal and corporate data," said Nick Magliato, Trust Digital's chief executive.Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, a respected computer security expert, said phone owners should decide whether to auction their used equipment for a few hundred dollars — and risk revealing their secrets — or effectively toss their old phones under a large truck to dispose of them.
What about a case like the Lothario whose affair Trust Digital discovered?
"I'd run over the phone," Zatko said. "Maybe give it an acid bath."