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January 21st, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Putting a password on your phone isn’t good enough. My phone, and likely yours too, has a micro sd card installed. The card can easily be removed and put in a computer to be read. What kind of data is on your sd card? I hope it isn’t a copy of the 1990s film Hackers you ripped from a DVD. Looks like we’ll be needing a warrant to search your house Mr. Video Pirate.
January 21st, 2011 at 2:00 pm
I was hoping for some help on this terrible, terrible area of the smart phone ecosystem and got “you’re still screwed.” Nice.
Aside from the problem of just pulling the simm and browsing away (Really? You don’t see the problem here Google, Apple, and everybody else?) Android doesn’t even get password protection right. The whole pattern thing is a good idea but then they add a handy dandy button that immediately dials 911. As if pocket dialing has never been heard of before.
So if I do password protect my phone, it also adds speed dial for the cops to come by and take out the simm card to browse incident to arrest. Way to go geniuses.
January 21st, 2011 at 5:13 pm
There are services available where you can remote lock, remote wipe and remote poll to see where your phone is located (if it is turned on). One I use is myLookOut.com and the annual subscription of $30/yr. is quite reasonable. This also include privacy/virus/trojan scanning and data backup. You just gotta be smart about your smartphone habits … I’m not affiliated with this service.