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Cell Phone Secrets Die Hard
duplo1 writes "According to an article on CNN, "Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile[s] up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think." It seems that corporate security policies need to extend their disposal standards to mobile devices; but what is there to educate consumers regarding such a potential breach of privacy?"
All they'll get from me is the number for the local Domino's Pizza... well - maybe some 900 numbers...
Even if you take preventive measures to erase sensitive data from devices, you still have mega-corporations who accidentally release sensitive data like a good smelly fart.
Just stick in in the microwave for about 10 seconds.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I use the ultimate security system. I give my old phones to my baby daughter. Proof of the security is that her own mother won't touch it anymore. Ferpect.
of selling old phones. Even if you buy a new one every year (which I'm sure few of us do), it's worth practically nothing. Everytime I upgrade phones, I do the same thing: transfer all the desired information to the new one and 'stress test' the old one. (hint: most don't pass the 20lb maul test).
Lose: misplace or fail || Loose: not bound together
In my company, we dispose of cellular telephones and other information technology equipment in the proper manner. First, we place that of which we are disposing on a steel platform. Then, a gentleman wielding an enormous iron sledgehammer approaches the aforementioned device, after which he proceeds to smash the fscking thing to bits. Finally, the aforementioned device is placed into the appropriate refuse recepticle. Thus, we are assured that the privacy of our employees is protected from unwanted breaches.
If anyone wants your calling info, they can just ask the NSA... (or steal one of their unencrypted, non-password protected laptops...)
"But this one goes to 11!"
>>you still have mega-corporations who accidentally release sensitive data like a good smelly fart.
Even when they don't release it publically, they lack both the competence or will to keep it to themselves.
That's funny - my wife says the same thing about me farting and I'm not even a corporation!
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