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Tuesday
Jul192011

It's so easy, even News of the World could do it

The recent scandal that has hit the former News of the World newspaper has highlighted something that most people neglect, the security of your phone.  Most of us do not put a password on our phone to access it.  Primarily this is a result of our desire to immediately access the device, but also of laziness.  It's just not obvious to us the risk that we are taking.  For those who have spent a lot of time under a rock this past week, employees of the former News of the World were systematically hacking into phone messages of various celebrities and politicians in the U.K.  How simple is it to do?  Check out this article and learn.

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