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Hack into a Smart Phone? It's easy.

MOBILE COMMUNICATION: Security experts are more worried than ever about lacking protection of data on smart phones

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More and more users switch from "classic" mobile telephones to smartphones. These BlackBerrys, iPhones etc. should rather be called "mobile communication computers" than telephones given the masses of data they send, receive and store.

 

While data rate, screen quality and colours, usability and price plans seem to be very important to the users, the protection of their data on smart phones remains in a mist. Today, mobile security is where computing security was in the Nineties, says an expert in this LA Times report:

 

Hack into a smart phone? It's easy, security experts find.