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Android Security Flaw

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:06:43 GMT

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790583

Worrying when we sell existing phones to recyclers?

Worrying when we send Try The Tech handsets back?

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News : Tesco Hudl and other Android devices face data reset flaw.

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 07:01:12 GMT

Headline : Tesco Hudl and other Android devices face data reset flaw.

"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.

In particular, Tesco's Hudl tablet was found to have a flaw that let attackers get at data saved to onboard memory."

My thoughts :

I just wanted to give a heads up on this information.

Personally if i bought a used tablet or phone I wouldn't even contemplate trying to recover data, but that's me.

Source : BBC News
Read more here : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28790583

Re: Android Security Flaw

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:08:07 GMT

Whoops http://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-topic/News-Tesco-Hudl-and-other-Android-devices-face-data-reset-flaw/td-p/715523

Re: Android Security Flaw

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:35:52 GMT

@Toby @Anonymous

Could you please merge this thread. Sorry didn't spot the previous story.

Re: Android Security Flaw

aldaweb — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:27:50 GMT

One reason why a Blackberry takes so long to do a wipe - it does it properly.