Ten Dangerous Beliefs About Smart Phones

jcatcw writes "According to Computerworld, lots of assumptions about the security of smart phones are wrong, and any high-value targets, such as political candidates or organizations with valuable data, should treat them carefully. They are not, contrary to common beliefs: just phones with cool features: 'A phone call over a landline used to be an acceptable method for communicating out-of-band administrative information. For example, a system administrator might call you back at your desk to verbally give you a new password (which you then changed, right?), This worked because the desk phone was isolated from the network and system resources to which you were being given access. Not so anymore. If you lose your smart phone and IT calls you back on that mobile number to confirm the trouble ticket, is it a meaningful method of verifying the identity or location of the person who answers?'"

Comments

Duh

[voice_of_all_reason]

They share the same curse as the "Smart Bomb." Given that thing's track record, this was obviously a poorly-chosen adjective.

Re:Assumptions, not beliefs

[KDR_11k]

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