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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Data in the Dumpster

Unfortunately, incompletely wiped smartphones routinely show up on ebay, Amazon and other national sellers which have hundreds of thousands of active listings daily. Robert Siciliano, a personal security and identity theft expert, purchased 20 different devices from Craigslist users in early 2012 and found that three of the devices had never been wiped.

http://mobileenterprise.edgl.com/news/Data-in-the-Dumpster-84579