Owning A New Phone

Owning A New Phone
Scott Granneman, 2005-03-24

Recent mobile phone and Bluetooth hacks, and the public's response to them, show us how the average person really looks at security.

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Owning A New Phone 2005-03-25
MJ

Take a look at your employees laptops, betcha most of them are Bluetooth enabled and turned on....

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Owning A New Phone 2005-03-28
Anonymous

I'd be interested in knowing the demographics of the people buying the Sidekick (primary user) after Paris Hilton's got hacked. I would speculate that it is a younger crowd, like high school and college age. They are the ones as a group that I believe are more likely to purchase something based on...

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The only thing sadder... 2005-03-28
Phil

... than people going out to buy more Sidekicks after reading about Paris Hilton's misfortunes is the comment from one of her friends which appeared in the New York Times:

"It's one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails is a real invasion ...

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Owning A New Phone 2005-03-29
lovelyx (1 replies)

I think we are getting new technology faster, but we are too slow to learn to handle it....

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Owning A New Phone 2005-03-31
Anonymous

"here's this famous person"

Sorry to burst the bubble: P.H. _is_not_ a famous person, she's just one of thousands rich and stupid nobodies, whose stories flooding mass media. Nothing interesting in particular.

"...and her phone gets brutally hacked..."

If the password was the name of her pe...

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