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RESETTING YOUR PHONE, or making sure it’s encrypted may not be enough to prevent your personal data from being retrieved if it’s lost or stolen, according to new research.
The findings, from the forensics team from Deloitte, found that even when a phone or tablet has been reset, both personal and corporate data could be retrieved from it. Such information could include mobile payment details, emails addresses, contact lists and PPS numbers.
The researchers tested out two scenarios. The first was a simulation of lost or stolen devices and the second was a set of second-hand phones that had been wiped. Mobile devices from Apple, Blackberry, Android, Windows Phone and a number of tablets were tested.
For the first scenario, 50 per cent of the mobile devices were encrypted and 90 per cent were password locked, while for the second scenario, 40 per cent of mobile devices were encrypted.
Under the first scenario, where the phones were stolen, the researchers successfully recovered the owners’ email addresses in 90 per cent of cases. In 75 per cent of cases, it was possible to identify the owner and recover their contacts, while passwords were recovered in 40 per cent of cases.
For 25 per cent of cases, PPS numbers could be identified as they were stored in contacts or SMS messages.
In the second scenario, which involved factory wiped phones, it found that it was possible to access text and chat logs in 85 per cent of cases, while the original owner was identifiable in 70 per cent of cases.
In 60 per cent of cases, it was possible to retrieve contacts and identify the owners’ email addresses. Researchers were able to recover passwords in 30 per cent of cases while PPS numbers were recovered in 15 per cent of cases.
According to Deloitte, the research was to determine what data was retrievable from both first and second-hand phones.
The organisation recommended a number of practices to help protect personal and corporate data in the case of theft or moving to a new device such as encrypting your device, evaluating apps carefully before downloading them, giving it a passcode, and recording the IMEI number on the device which can be used by your service provider to deactivate your phone.
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Also, on the internet, you can read all about how the Catholic church still have not paid up their share of redress for the systematic abuse, rape, torture of children for decades.
Don’t click on http://www.richarddawkins.net
Or, the actual bible for that matter.
Or here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=614
Damnable baby-friers, the lot of them.
Robin, I know you’re one of us. You spam too many threads there ;)
How about just be a good person.
Remember ” Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer”
Thanks to the internet that Missionary position is a thing of the past.
11: Go on videos about evolution and try to debate it, even though your grasp of biology is on par with a 4 year old blind mute.
12. If you’re a Christian, delete your Browsing History before the Bishop sees it, atheist’s get a free pass.
I would put this into the same category as the advertisement articles..
Pray bla pray bla pray bla. Do nothing bla.
The archbishop hasn’t said anything that could be construed as offensive here . It’s a message of community for all and finding common ground. But of course on the Journal comment section we find mostly those who prefer contrived arguments (who’s debating evolution?) and exercising their superiority complexes rather than concentrating on shared objectives. And then you wonder why you are left to interact only with fundamentalists
Live and let live. The Bishop said nothing offensive .
Not being offensive isn’t enough. If you’re a good person, you should be actively doing something good for the world, not just “not being bad”. Evil triumphs when good people do nothing, etc.
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Cat videos are a gift fro God
To balance this out, can we have Micheal Nugent, Richard Dawkins, Dara O Briain, or some other atheist with an article tomorrow?
Not christian myself but just love the levels of tolerance here, nothing like it since the christians lost 126 to 0 to the lions in Rome in 76.
Mark, comment made me smile. Thank you.
Religious people need to harden up a bit, your claims are preposterous and if you can’t take a bit of stick from knuckle dragging fools, you could atleast defend what you believe in with some rationality and debate.
It’s a belief not proven fact.
There is no rational debate.
Sure, I’ll send a tip to the author: keep your sanctimonious nonsense for your congregation/practitioners/believers as it’s just about entirely irrelevant for this secular world …but thanks for sharing.
Just wait for all the comments from the knuckle dragging fools that can’t wait to criticise religion.
Gay scientists have discovered the gene that makes people Christians.
@Tom Cross – so you at least admit that Darwin was right?
Tom, believing there’s a guy up there controlling everything is a bit of a knuckle drag and saying God wrote the bible? Well that’s laughable, If you’re happy in that world of yours then stay there and don’t bother the rest of us!
Tom if it wasn’t for evolution, you lot would still be dragging your knuckles.
You missed the boat, Tom Cross. The first “knuckle-dragger” posted 31 minutes ago.
You hardly think Christians take that literally Stephen? Christian religion is a good moral road map to follow and although it has it’s issues I can’t see why people are so adamantly against it.
What’s the difference between God and the Tooth fairy. Why is it acceptable to stop believing in one beyond the age of 10 but not the other?
tom I think you will find Darwin proved we all evolved from knuckle dragging fools
Sure there’s nothing to criticize in religion.
The Pope said so and he is infallible.
There’s even 2 popes now. That’s called a miracle.
You appear to be in breach of #1, #2, and #5, there, Tom. Lighten up!
“destroy and degrade human sexuality and relationships, reduce persons to objects for gratification”
Anyone else a bit taken aback by the gall of a representative of the Roman church pontificating on this particular topic?
Religion should carry a mental health warning.
I’d prefer it if the EU simply insisted on treating religion the same way as tarot readers, and made every church, mosque and temple have a sign over the front door saying “For entertainment purposes only”.
Evangelising christians I have come across have a simple strategy. Rhetort from a list of long refuted arguments you found on a web site. As each is refuted move on to the next. When the list is exhausted start again ignoring the previous refutations. When caught out, move on to the next heathen.
The internet is full of aggressive “Christian” too ! Dear bishop !
Ha! You deleted my comment. That’s a win for me home boy. Stay in your capsule.
The beliefs they cling to are ridiculous, go to your local chipper on good Friday and order a half pounder and look at the disgust on the faces of the non practicing catholics
I must remember to print this list off and send it to my good old pal Paddy Scully, he’ll love number 3, ‘Never bear false witness on the Internet’.
There should have been something more specific regarding trolling as well, after all, the christian god was the first ever Troll. Making a list of Ten Rules and then programming us to want to do the opposite, then when we all thought we were safe and going about our business he floods our whole planet for the laugh, epic trolling by god.
Thought he said ‘ have a bareback for no 5′ for a sec there.
Would’ve been good to see them sticking to their principles with regards to the nuts and bolts of all this missionary pornography they’re promoting.
Religion is boll*x.
be positive and joyful that s the christian way
Empathy is what is needed not religion. Religion is open to interpretation. Where as empathy is not.
Yea verily, my buzz hath been slain!
The word “computer” adds up to 666 in Common English Gematria
http://www.alef.net/ALEFWorks/Images/ALEFImages-Computer666.Gif
OMG, a coincidence!
What’s your point?
Barney the Dinosaur is the Antichrist.
Proof:
Barney is a cute purple dinosaur.
Take the words CUTE PURPLE DINOSAUR.
Remove the non-Roman numerals and change the Us to Vs. CVVLDIV (D=500, C=100, L=50, V=5, I=1)
Add them up 100 + 5 + 5 + 50 + 500 + 1 + 5 = 666.
Proof Barney is the Antichrist.
REPENT! REPENT!
The ten commandments, how quaint.
Archbishop what if any systems do you have in place to enable the Catholic church to start islamic teachings? Have you any training prepared to deliver Islamic writings and the process involved?
There there. An extra layer of tinfoil on that hat will help.
Careful Now!
Down with that sort of thing!
Sutt Steve, now that would definitely be an ecumenical matter!
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, (NSA, Obama) as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour”:..1 Peter 5:8…
That would be an Ecumenical matter.
Jesus wasn´t polemic? He was assassinated!!.
Slainte
Easter is cancelled. They found the body.
Christmas is cancelled. Joseph owned up.
He forgot some already in use by the likes of @MichaelKellyIC (Michael Kelly, editor of The Irish Catholic) and @davquinn (David Quinn, director of the Iona “Institute” lobby group) – “Youse people asking hard questions are anonymous, so I refuse to answer your questions or engage with you! Instead I’m just going to continue to pontificate over here, and blatantly ignore and/or /break 1 to 5…”
Thou shalt not use the words: Feck, Arse, Girls or Drink.
Crusades.
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