i just read that even if you erase the data(text messages included)from
your cell phone it can still be retrieved. they said that the retreival
software is relatively inexpensive and people can buy old cell phones
off ebay and get the previous owners information and old text messages.
they did an experiment and found multimillion dollar contract
information, credit card information and bank account numbers. what do
you think about the risks that people expose thereselves to for the
convenience of technology

well, I cannot imagine the population of people negatively affected by
this is really huge. My mean, Joe Podunk from eastern nowhere probably
doesn;t care at all about someone getting his drinking buddies phone
numbers.

it's not just the phone numbers though, do you have any idea how many
people text message and the types of sensitive information that is
passed using it

I would say you if you have something that is "sensitive" you shouldn't
be sending it on a public phone. I mean, those signals can be
intercepted anyways right?

yeah i know but alot of people do it anyway. it's like buying things on
the internet, even with all the security features people can still
easily hack into it but there are people who uses cc and do online bill
payment and online banking and the number of them people keeps
increasing all the time because it's more convenient. the text messages
they found had cc numbers and bank accoun numbers all through them.
that's just what i was trying to say is that in the rush to make things
easier it's creating more opportunities for things to be intercepted and
the theives are harder to catch if they do get it. i'm all for progress
but sometimes the risks out number the positives and people just aren't
using their head

i hesitated to get a cell phone but i would never put anything like that
on it

me either why put that on a cell?

this is like the age old dichotomy of security over convenience. You
have to give up one to attain the other.

see that's the thing, the old ways are still much safer but they are
less convenient. i would still rather go to the bank than to do it on
line. it's not a matter of me hating the idea but i was just wondering
at what point people decide that even though it's risky they are just
too busy

it's kinda crazy the lenghts people will go and the risks that they will
take to save a few minutes

they did conveience over security at the airports too once upon a time

yes so true about the airports!!

I don't have any of that info on my cell, so it doesn't affect me.
Yippee!

I don't keep any kind of info like that in my cell phone...but I do a
lot of texting...OMG I hope no one reads those!!! I will be going to
hell for sure!

naughty naughty, see you ain't as unsure as you'd like people to think
are you lol