Do you need a “delete-everything” application?
Nokia S60 applications
- September 1st, 2006
Please read the S60 User Experience post Who’s reading your information? and post your comments to that thread.
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A company did an experiment: they bought a number of smart phones from eBay, and checked if they can retrieve personal information from the devices (see their news bulletin).
And they succeeded.
Bank accounts and passwords. Business plans. Personal messages. Calenders. Contacts. And then some. Some of the devices were re-set to factory settings before they were sold second hand, as described in the user’s manual. But it was still possible to dig up the personal information.
I don’t really need an application to do this, I would like it if the alread available ‘reset to factory defaults’ functionality would permanently erase all my data. IMO this is what most people already use to wipe their phone before they sell it or give it away.
In these days of identities being stolen then it is very important.
Yeah, there should be an option to do a real “format C:”. You can do this with a widely known key combination (keep “3″ + green + asterisk pressed while phone is booting), but it’s not the easiest way..
That’ll be very great. I’ve been loking for a combination of keys to format my phone memory. Could you help please?
Check out the comment above your’s.
I would like to retrieve some contacts I deleted by mistake.. is there a way to do so?