Mark Bridge writes:
Much of Bletchley Park’s history involves code-breaking and intercepting radio messages so - when Over The Air 2011 brought hundreds of mobile developers to the site - it seemed appropriate to explore the subject of mobile phone security.
In particular, there were a couple of sessions on the agenda that caught my eye. Detective Sergeant Andy Williams of the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit started by talking about stolen phones... and asking if mobile applications could help with this problem.
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AndroidPolice.com reports that some HTC devices are storing information that could easily be collected by a malicious applications.
The stored information, which includes data about the device and its user, is theoretically available to any installed app that’s given internet access.
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The GSMA has announced the results of a study about privacy issues on mobile devices.
It contacted more than 4,000 mobile phone users in Singapore, Spain and the UK to find out how concerned they were about privacy and how this influenced their use of mobile internet services and applications.
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HP, Facebook and Twitter are all up for discussion in The Fonecast this week, along with customer service complaints, mobile security failings and children with iPhones.
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Mark Bridge writes:
I’m glad I don't work for Facebook. One minute everyone loves you, the next minute they hate you. Multiply that by the 500 million people now using Facebook every day and I’d be pretty insecure.
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