A Question for You Techies Out There
Cidu Bill on Dec 30th 2009
The other night, two friends were discussing their respective smart phones, an iPhone and, I think, a Droid — you know the kind of discussion, basically “My phone’s penis is bigger than your phone’s penis” — and one of them, I forget which, mentioned an app where if you lose your phone, you can dial it up, punch in a code, and completely erase all data stored on it.
Which got me thinking: Seems like every month we hear about some bank executive misplacing a laptop containing 500,000 customer Social Security numbers, or a Secret Service agent leaving a laptop containing the nuclear launch codes in a taxicab… so if an iPhone can have a remote-wipe function, is there any reason a laptop can’t? Seems like a fairly simple matter.
Of course this begs the question of why ultra-sensitive information is ever allowed to be on a laptop, but that’s another matter and I doubt anybody can really explain this.
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