Your Cellphone Flash Memory Check Starts Here!

Auctioned cellphones at eBay are items of interest for those who fancy older models at a cheaper price. Sellers are just as happy to sell their dilapidated phones to collectors. But Trust Digital has just found out that some cellphone owners who love changing phone models every year or so don’t bother to erase the data in their phone’s flash memories. Consequently, their cellphones become diaries for hackers to feast on.

Trust Palm Treo to come up with a solution. If you are familiar with Treo’s zero-out technique, chances are you have struggled with the three-button-and-one-behind finger gymnastics. But the purpose of Palm Treo is to make it hard for the cellphone owner to delete the data, even accidentally.

Now, is this a bane or a boon? As far as cellphone owners are concerned, deleting data from the cellphone memory is the next best thing to getting a great deal at eBay for their phones. By then, any hacker would have no chance of even utilizing a software that could bring to surface those deeply-buried corporate passwords, top-secret business e-mails, and even details of the owner’s personal affairs.

Whether you think whatever data that’s left in your old cellphone matters or not, cellphone hackers have a way of digging them up if they really want to. Hacking is a deliberate act. Cellphones come with instructions on how to delete information from the flash memory. Ultimately, it’s up to the users if they want to follow the instructions or not.

Auctioned cellphones at eBay are items of interest for those who fancy older models at a cheaper price. Sellers are just as happy to sell their dilapidated phones to collectors. But Trust Digital has just found out that some cellphone owners who love changing phone models every year or so don’t bother to erase the data in their phone’s flash memories. Consequently, their cellphones become diaries for hackers to feast on.

Trust Palm Treo to come up with a solution. If you are familiar with Treo’s zero-out technique, chances are you have struggled with the three-button-and-one-behind finger gymnastics. But the purpose of Palm Treo is to make it hard for the cellphone owner to delete the data, even accidentally.

Now, is this a bane or a boon? As far as cellphone owners are concerned, deleting data from the cellphone memory is the next best thing to getting a great deal at eBay for their phones. By then, any hacker would have no chance of even utilizing a software that could bring to surface those deeply-buried corporate passwords, top-secret business e-mails, and even details of the owner’s personal affairs.

Whether you think whatever data that’s left in your old cellphone matters or not, cellphone hackers have a way of digging them up if they really want to. Hacking is a deliberate act. Cellphones come with instructions on how to delete information from the flash memory. Ultimately, it’s up to the users if they want to follow the instructions or not.