Sunday, September 17, 2006

Schneier: Recovering Data from Cell Phones

Bruce Schneier has a post on how easy it is to recover private data from cell phones.

"Trust Digital of McLean, Virginia, bought 10 different phones on eBay this summer to test phone-security tools it sells for businesses. The phones all were fairly sophisticated models capable of working with corporate e-mail systems..."
Why don't cell-phone manufacturers offer a clear-all function? The only way I know to really protect your information is to destroy the phone. There has to be a better way.

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