Defending The Kingdom

Selling your phone? Consider destroying it instead. To be sure you’re not passing on sensitive information stored in your cell phone, the only remedy is to mince it with a meat hammer and dump the pieces in the garbage.

Take a look at what some are finding on second-hand cell phones:

Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cell phones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.

A popular practice among sellers, resetting the phone, often means sensitive information appears to have been erased. But it can be resurrected using specialized yet inexpensive software found on the Internet. (continue reading…)