My parents have always told me over and over to not lose my phone. I'm not sure if its because they're extremely expensive to replace or because when people find them they try to access personal data. I'm responding to the Article: Most finders of lost phones try to access personal data, survey finds by Amy Gahran, a special to CNN. The article is about an experiment where they deliberately lost 50 android phones in Los Angles, San Francisco, Washington, New York and Ottawa. The phones were loaded with identical apps, files and data and none of the phones were secured with a pass code. Symantec found that in the vast majority of cases more than 95% of the people who found the missing phones tried to access personal or sensitive information, or services such as online banking or e-mail. Half of the finders made some sort of attempt to return the lost phones by a email or phone number for the owner was listed in the contacts app on each of the decoy's phone. Some of the stats break down like this: 72% of the lost phone finders looked through stored photos, attempts were made on 60% of the pones to access social media, more than 40% of finders tried to access corporate e-mail and online banking. 53% of finders accessed a fake list of employee salaries and 57% of finders accessed files contained a list of passwords for services on the phone. I was shocked as I read this article as I too have found a phone at Wendy's recently with very low battery, I began to call people on the contacts list and left them messages saying "I found this phone at Wendy's in Sturbridge, Massachusetts and I'm giving it to the manager here." It wasn't a droid, it was just a basic phone but I never looked through the pictures or anything. I couldn't believe the percentage of how many people were nosy as looked at many of the things on the phone. My last phone I had for four years so hopefully my new smartphone will last just as long. I guess the moral of this story is to have a password on your smartphone and to NOT LOSE THEM like this guy below.
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I too found this article to be very interesting, almost choosing it I figured I would write a response to it and see what somebody else has to say about it. I am definitely with you on finding a phone and making sure it gets back to the appropriate owner. I work at a concert venue, where phones are always lost and found, so I always try to help people that have lost something that is of good value to them. If I had lost my cell phone, I would hope that somebody would be kind enough to return it. I do have personal things on my cell phone such as my Facebook & Twitter information, and email information as well. I understand that these can be sold for a good amount of money, but I believe that doing the right thing pays off in the end. Along with that, I believe that karma does exist, so I would not want to be on the wrong end of it.
ReplyDeleteRobert Ricci