Posts by Black Rat 160 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jul 2013
I wonder what the privacy policy will say about tracking your location? Even if you deny the network access to the onboard GPS info then density of hotspots still narrows your position down to a particular street corner.
Sods law also suggests that when every traffic light has an internet connection, somebody will say...
"why don't we put CCTV or APNR on them as well?"
Well there's always Ear-prints but this does rely on the next generation of phones being held against the head in the traditional manner.
There was also was some biometric research done over two decades ago on the unique echo signature of an individuals audatory canal.. the bit you shove the cotton bud into, I suppose that could work in theory for phone handsets.
Wasn't the guttman method superseded around 2003 with the "Secure Erase Standard" ?
Anyhow...
Erasing the drives would be a superfluous process IF the confidential data had been encrypted.
<caveat>Of course there's always some silly sod who keeps passwords in text file on the desktop.
However as most commercial software 'phones home' at boot-up checking for Key validity or updates then bricking the decryption packages on mass should be a simple & speedy affair.
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