Criminals Remote-Wiping Cell Phones

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 3, 2008 @11:58AM from the this-phone-will-self-destruct dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Crafty criminals are increasingly using the remote wipe feature on the Apple iPhone and other business handsets, such as RIM's BlackBerry, to destroy incriminating evidence, the head of the UK's Serious Fraud Office Keith Foggon has warned. Foggon told silicon.com that the move away from PCs towards using mobile phones was causing a headache for crime fighters who were struggling to keep up with the fast pace of new handsets and platforms churned out by the mobile industry."

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First POST by vimm · 2008-09-03 11:59 · Score: 0, Troll

my touchpad iphone is faster than your blackberriii
1. Re:First POST by OECD · 2008-09-03 13:08 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  I'm glad these articles focus on the negative facts that police have trouble with, and not the USEFUL part of remote data wipe so that millions of customers data can be deleted when a device is lost...
  Yeah, that would be useful. How do you do that on an iPhone? I thought that the lack of that feature was one of it's problems for Enterprise.
  
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