 Cell Phones Won't Keep Your Secrets |
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 Aug 30 2006, 04:34 PM
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Newbie [Level 1]  Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 30-August 06 Member No.: 29,149  |
QUOTE Selling an old wireless phone might seem like a good way to make a little extra money, but it can be a lot like putting your diary on eBay. Security analysts found 27,000 pages of documents on 10 phones they bought online -- including details of a multi-million dollar contract bid, bank account passwords and secret notes between a married man and his girlfriend. For full story http://www.cnn.com/TECH/ |
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Aug 30 2006, 08:11 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 524 Joined: 19-May 06 From: Leeds, UK Member No.: 23,963 |
Haha, wooooaaaaaah o.o
I'm destroying mty phone then  Well, I never have anything important on it anyways |
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Aug 30 2006, 08:45 PM
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-=Hybrid Bus=- Group: Members Posts: 744 Joined: 2-November 05 From: My hybrid bus (in NYC), a computer Member No.: 13,709  |
PC World discussed cell phone privacy in a Privacy Watch column once. They say that before you sell or give away your phone, you should reset it to clear out your personal info. The reset command for your phone can be really long and complicated, usually invloving pressing buttons in a specific sequence. You can find the reset commands at The Cell Phone Data Eraser Page (at http://find.pcworld.com/50670), where instructions are listed for many phones.
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Aug 30 2006, 10:55 PM
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Moderator  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,327 Joined: 26-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,940 |
hmm... I thought you could just delete each thing by pressing the delete option. I guess I'm wrong....
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Aug 30 2006, 11:00 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 323 Joined: 4-June 06 Member No.: 24,722 |
Arent delete code illeagle, the police confiscated my friends phone to review deleted text messages, kinda spooky
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Aug 30 2006, 11:57 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 31-May 06 Member No.: 24,594 |
That's kind of scary.. What if you delete everything? Can things stil be found out?
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Sep 4 2006, 03:15 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 237 Joined: 30-August 04 Member No.: 944 |
this is just like you harddrive, een if u format it there are still ways people can retreive every piece of data you had on it before u formatted. this is because the data is still there in the diisks, its just showing that its not there by the system. i think if u format and repplace the harddrive with other files it will overwrite all teh information/data prior to formatting... but its a bit hectic and extreme. i guess u'd have to if u want to hide some really imoportant data though.
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Sep 5 2006, 03:17 AM
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Privileged Member Group: Members Posts: 660 Joined: 31-August 06 From: Singapore Member No.: 29,189 |
This is really freaky, deleted text are still being able to be located. I would never store any passwords on my phone. But shouldn't all the data be found in the SIM card and not in the phone itself.
Does anyone have any idea how this reset procedure work? I am selling off my phone in a month's time and it would be great if they are not able to locate my data in the phone. |
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Sep 7 2006, 07:14 PM
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Braindead by Default Group: Members Posts: 715 Joined: 5-November 05 From: United States of America Member No.: 13,837 |
Yes, by "deleting" a file, one simply tells the computer (or phone) to allow the data allotted to that file to be overwritten, so until that happens, it is still physically there, just not virtually.
Only thing I can say is that, before discarding your phone, be sure to run it over an extremely powerful electromagnet. |
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