MOBILE COMMUNICATION: Experts warn of massive security gaps in smartphones
More and more consumers are swapping their “classic” mobile phone for a smartphone. Considering how much data they send, receive and store, smartphones should be called “mobile communication computers.”
Users are very interested in the transfer speed, quality and colors of screens, usability and price plans, but protecting their data remains a mystery to most. “When it comes to protecting data on cell phones, we are now where computer security was in the 1990s,” experts warn in an LA Times article:
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