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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."
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Did that help, or hurt? ;-)
Heh Heh, he said ASSpirin.
I actually thought their response was fairly interesting. It you troll by making people post interesting things, then by all means continue.
How about not feeding the trolls?
I heard of a group which tried to call an event a picnic until someone complained (black slur). They then changed it to an outing until someone complained (gay slur). I think there was a third example of a word which garnered a complaint, so they said screw it and changed it back to a picnic. Awesome.
Well done for feeding the troll.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Does the name Nazir have anything to do with Nazi Germany?