Don’t tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them.
Die Washington Post berichtet:
A company, Trust Digital of McLean, Va., bought 10 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.
The other phones contained:
- _One company’s plans to win a multimillion-dollar federal transportation contract.
- _E-mails about another firm’s $50,000 payment for a software license.
- _Bank accounts and passwords.
- _Details of prescriptions and receipts for one worker’s utility payments.
The recovered information was equal to 27,000 pages _ a stack of printouts 8 feet high.
via privacy.org