What happens when your smartphone is lost

[yeehi]

There is an interesting study here (http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/presskits/b-symantec-smartphone-honey-stick-project.en-us.pdf)about what happens if your smartphone is lost.

Amongst many other interesting findings:

80% of the time personal data is accessed!
50% of the time an attempt is made to contact the owner.

Make sure your data is password protected!

[Bachstelze]

Even better: don't own a smartphone.

[SuperFreak]

even better: Don't own a smartphone.

+1

[zombifier25]

Even better: don't own a smartphone.

That's like saying in order to prevent food poisoning, one must not eat food.

[sffvba[e0rt]

that's like saying in order to prevent food poisoning, one must not eat food.

+1


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[aysiu]

There is an interesting study here (http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/presskits/b-symantec-smartphone-honey-stick-project.en-us.pdf)about what happens if your smartphone is lost.

Amongst many other interesting findings:

80% of the time personal data is accessed!
50% of the time an attempt is made to contact the owner.

Make sure your data is password protected! I actually find those two statistics quite encouraging. I would think the personal data being accessed would be much higher than 80% and that the attempt to contact the owner (presumably to return the phone, right?) would be much lower than 50%.

My wife and I did find an iPhone in a rental car glove compartment. We managed to go through the woman's contacts and dial her husband to arrange to return the phone to her. It all worked out.

[tienlbhoc]

I used smartphone few years, I can't give up them :mad:

[Roasted]

That's like saying in order to prevent food poisoning, one must not eat food.

I think this post just won the internet.

[aysiu]

That post is hilarious... but I think a more appropriate analogy would be avoiding car theft by not owning a car. Cars are in many places unnecessary, but they can often be extremely convenient to have. Same with smartphones. Does anyone need a smartphone? No. We don't all eschew needless stuff just so we can avoid said stuff being stolen.

[Roasted]

That post is hilarious... but I think a more appropriate analogy would be avoiding car theft by not owning a car. Cars are in many places unnecessary, but they can often be extremely convenient to have. Same with smartphones. Does anyone need a smartphone? No. We don't all eschew needless stuff just so we can avoid said stuff being stolen.

Personal opinion: regardless of the analogy, the fact still remains that it's a little ridiculous to remove the object in question entirely out of the picture strictly due to precautionary measures alone. You can spin off 1001 scenarios pretty easily with that mentality:

If you don't want your smartphone stolen, don't own a smartphone.
If you don't want food poisoning, don't eat food.
If you don't want your car stolen, don't own a car.
If you don't want your bike stolen, don't own a bike.
If you don't want your house broken into, don't own a house.
If you don't want your wallet stolen, don't carry a wallet.
If you don't want your computer stolen, don't own a computer.
If you don't want X stolen, don't own X.

If that's the case, to be safe from any degree of consequence of owning/doing certain things, we should all own nothing.

[QIII]

For anyone who should decide to give up your worldly possessions in order to keep them from being stolen, I am available to receive them....