Break Out a Hammer: You’ll Never Believe the Data ‘Wiped’ Smartphones Store

Feuer Frei! · 04-03-13, 04:03 AM

If you want to sell your old SmartPhone and deleted all your personal stuff and you think nothing is left on it, think again:

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Simply restoring a phone to its factory settings won’t completely clear it of data. Even if you use the built-in tools to wipe it, when you go to sell your phone on Craigslist you may be selling all sorts of things along with it that are far more valuable — your name, birth date, Social Security number and home address, for example. You may inadvertently sell your old photos, nudes and all. The bottom line is, the stuff you thought you had gotten rid of is still there, if someone knows how to look.

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Nudes? What Nudes...

Herr-Berbunch · 04-03-13, 06:53 AM

I was thinking that too. At least not on my current phone (and never any of me!), and I only know of one other phone that was used by anyone else, and still is, but that doesn't have any on either.

Still, I could put one on of me - then whomsoever gets the phone next will definitely clear everything off it.

04-03-13, 06:53 AM	#2
Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	I was thinking that too. At least not on my current phone (and never any of me!), and I only know of one other phone that was used by anyone else, and still is, but that doesn't have any on either. Still, I could put one on of me - then whomsoever gets the phone next will definitely clear everything off it. __________________