Be careful when you take selfies

[AZDuck]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/0...thousand_wobbly_bits_after_wiped_phone_probe/

It's hard out there for a security researcher. Several of them recently had to view thousands of nude selfies pulled from second-hand phones and tablets for a project warning users flogging old devices.

The beleaguered security bods saw 750 photos of naked women and 250 images of manhood from a pool of 40,000 photos still stored on a mere 20 second-hand Android devices. A factory reset of the gadgets is not enough, the researchers claim – sensitive data has to be overwritten.

Leaving personal files in the flash memory could lead to more than mere embarrassment for victims, if buyers combined location coordinates from photographs' EXIF data and Facebook profile debris that allowed stalkers and perverts to zero-in on selfie stars

 

[whatshouldicareabout]

brb jo

 

[GrundleStiltzkin]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/09/boffins_slapped_by_one_thousand_wobbly_bits_after_wiped_phone_probe/

It's hard out there for a security researcher. Several of them recently had to view thousands of nude selfies pulled from second-hand phones and tablets for a project warning users flogging old devices.

The beleaguered security bods saw 750 photos of naked women and 250 images of manhood from a pool of 40,000 photos still stored on a mere 20 second-hand Android devices. A factory reset of the gadgets is not enough, the researchers claim – sensitive data has to be overwritten.

Leaving personal files in the flash memory could lead to more than mere embarrassment for victims, if buyers combined location coordinates from photographs' EXIF data and Facebook profile debris that allowed stalkers and perverts to zero-in on selfie stars

Mods, BOI? NSFW

 

[oregonblitzkrieg]

This is a very fucked up thread.

 

[OZONE]

It is worse than you think. Photos on your mobile phones, are available to any competent android or windows-os hacker to download anytime your phone wanders within range for their mini cellular repeaters...

 

[AZDuck]

how do you think I got these photos?

 

[OZONE]

how do you think I got these photos?

I just thought they were all slightly photoshopped version of you.