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When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone
Xenographic writes "NPR has a story about someone whose personal iPhone got remotely wiped by their employer. It was actually a mistake, but it was something of a surprise because they didn't believe they had given their employer any kind of access to do that. This may already be very familiar to Microsoft Exchange admins, but the problem was her iPhone's integration with MS Exchange automatically gives the server admin access to do remote wipes. All you have to do is configure the phone to receive email from an MS Exchange server and the server admin can wipe your phone at will. The phone wasn't bricked, even though absolutely all of its data was wiped, because the data could be restored from backup, assuming that someone had remembered to make one. But this also works on other devices like iPads, Blackberry phones, and other smartphones that integrate with MS Exchange. So if you read your work email on your personal phone or tablet, you might want to make sure that you keep backups, just in case."
You're either a troll, an idiot, or both. Apple didn't have to allow the wipe functionality, or could have made it configurable. It's your boyfriend Steve Jobs who you should be mad at.
I mean, let's give it some perspective here. If there was a cleaning product called Nigger-n-Span I get the feeling there would be protests. We cannot have a truly colorblind society where everybody is equal if one group is defended more than another group.
There you go
Non-Linux Penguins ?
There are professional race-baiters out there who see "racism" in the color of their morning coffee.
Most of them work for people like Al Sharpton, or racial supremacist organizations like the NAACP or LULAC.