Don’t tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them.
Secondhand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers, banking passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adultery.
Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information piles up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think. Today, it can be resurrected using specialized yet inexpensive software found on the Internet. "People are just not aware how much they're exposing themselves," says Howard Schmidt, President Bush's former cybersecurity adviser. "This is your identity."
September 01, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Don’t tell your cell phone any secrets. It might not keep them.
Secondhand phones purchased over the Internet surrendered credit card numbers, banking passwords, business secrets and even evidence of adultery.
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