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Your Abandoned Smartphone May Betray You

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Your-Abandoned-Smartphone-May-Betray-You-80709.html

 

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Doing a factory reset to wipe the data off smartphones does not work, and the data can be recovered,

warned Avast. The company recovered tons of data, including more than 40,000 stored photographs,

from 20 used Android phones purchased from eBay.Device owners need to overwrite their files to makethem

irretrievable,Avast said,touting one of the applications it offers.“RAM-based memory still uses the same file system as hard drives,

and … PC files do not really get deleted either,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO at KnowBe4. 

 

 

 

 

Both Android and iOS are based on Unix-like operating systems, and both use NAND flash storage, "so it's highly likely" that data on both can be retrieved after it has been deleted, Dave Jevans, founder and CTO of Marble Security.

 

 

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Very old news. I knew about this a long time ago.

 

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-snip-

That guy has no clue what he's talking about.

 

The iOS core is actually SUS certified (minus Cocoa Touch obviously), and Android is not UNIX-like at all. It uses the Linux kernel, but it is not UNIX-like in any other way. Also the OS has nothing to do with how easy it is to wipe data off of it.

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reposta 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/178467-avast-recovers-data-from-wiped-android-phones-bought-on-ebay/ 

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4.3 and above has garbage collection AKA TRIM

this will only work in older version of android

and even then u can still  sellit safely there are methods online

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This is why I always cover my old phones in peanut butter and feed them to my dog. When will these noobs learn? 

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This is why I always cover my old phones in peanut butter and feed them to my dog. When will these noobs learn?

So it's not just your dog that like peanut butter thank goodness I thought mine might be crazy

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The only one getting victimized is the person searching for me.

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