Sep
Cell phones won’t keep your secrets
So you’ve decided to sell your old cell phone and make some extra money,but before you do that,think again.
Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.
A popular practice among sellers, resetting the phone, often means sensitive information appears to have been erased. But it can be resurrected using specialized yet inexpensive software found on the Internet.
A company, 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.
Curious software experts at Trust Digital resurrected information on nearly all the used phones, including the racy exchanges between guarded lovers.
Technorati: security, mobile+phones, data, information, cells
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September 3rd, 2006 at 8:37 pm
I think the only way anyone is safe anymore is in face to face conversation. Its just better to live life honestly and hide nothing..
And thank you for the comment on Browzar. I appreciate it. I edited the post and told people to check out your comment before downloading! :0)
September 4th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
I think it is also similar to our computer hard drives. I think I’ve heard about this in the US, some people collects old hard drives for recycles. People who throw these garbages believed that the files and documents from the hard drive were already erased after you delete some programs, etc. Later they actually found evidence that some important documents weren’t totally removed. So think before your dump a single piece of your old hardware.
As for cellphone, I think my memory card stored all my information so in case I buy one, I still have my contacts with me. But - we never know.
September 5th, 2006 at 8:51 am
With a hard drive goes easier because you can wipe up the data.
We now have all kind of good programs.
But with a mobile phone…that’s another story.
On my phone i have the option to format the drive but i don’t know the security code and i can’t find its papers.
It was in UK that you heard about that,probably on Grumpy Old Bastards blog.
September 7th, 2006 at 4:10 am
I currently Own a Nokia 6630 and for these security reasons I never store sensitive information on my phone. I use this phone only for talking and listening to music. So when I dispose this phone I need not worry. Well Carol Now you are the moderator for OS and Software trouble shooting in our Technobytez Forum. Congratulations.
September 7th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Thanks Shiva.I’ll do my best to be a good mod. and to make our forum and fun place to be.
I own an SX1 and i also use it for calling….but also lots of text messaging and sometimes taking photos.
Thing is,i’ll never sell it.Not this one.
September 7th, 2006 at 10:39 am
And the day when you want to dispose the phone you can rip it and dipose it