{"id":19724,"date":"2012-09-13T21:45:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T01:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:13:00","slug":"study-says-everyone-snoops-thru-mobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/study-says-everyone-snoops-thru-mobiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Snoops Thru Smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Everyone<\/a>Mobile device users lose almost 70 million smartphones per year<\/strong> in the U.S., about 30 percent of all the phones in use at any given time. According to one report<\/a> only seven percent of the lost smartphones are recovered.<\/strong> Only 57 percent had any security, but 60 percent have confidential<\/strong> contact lists, emails, Internet and security codes and credentials for business apps or mobile-payment services.<\/p>\n

\"Symantec<\/a>Even if an honest person finds your mobile<\/strong>, security company\u00a0Symantec<\/a> (SYMC<\/a>) says that the good Samaritan will look at the confidential data<\/a> stored<\/strong> on the smartphone while trying to return it. The study<\/a> (PDF) found that 96 percent<\/strong> of the people who found a mobile device planted by the security vendor peeked at personal data. People who found the smartphones:<\/p>\n