Android's phone wiping fails to delete personal data

lotuseclat79 · Jul 8, 2014

Android's phone wiping fails to delete personal data.

Prepping an older phone for resale or as a donation? A study shows you'll need more than the default data wipe tools to eliminate personal data and those embarrassing selfies.
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-- Tom

lotuseclat79 · Jul 8, 2014

Security company says your data can easily be recovered from 'wiped' Android phones.

Software maker Avast is calling the security and thoroughness of Android's factory reset feature into serious doubt today. The company says it purchased 20 used Android smartphones online and set out to test whether personal user data could be recovered from them. Each phone had been reset prior to being sold, according to Avast, so in theory the test should have failed miserably. But that's not what happened.
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Dermot7 · Aug 14, 2014

Hiding data by using a factory reset option does little to delete potentially sensitive information, suggest researchers.

Three separate investigations of Android's data deleting systems found it was possible to recover information.

In some cases, a reset just removed the list of where data was stored and deleted nothing else.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790583

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