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To: grey_whiskers

“Here you go, moron.”

So what, i don’t have either of those phones with the biometric sensor.

Now go crawl back in your litter box.


31 posted on 08/12/2015 9:32:25 AM PDT by topspinr
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To: topspinr
So what, i don’t have either of those phones with the biometric sensor.

So you don't have either of those Android phones. . . but I bet you have one of these 630,000 Android phones:

Personal details of 500 million Android users at risk: Researchers find it is impossible to completely clear data from handset when changing phone


By JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:07 EST, 23 May 2015 | UPDATED: 11:19 EST, 23 May 2015 — DailyMail UK


This research was confirmed and the only way to safely dispose of Android devices is to SHRED them. You cannot sell them, give them away, or donate them without providing vital personal information such as passwords or other ID data. The majority of Android devices did not wipe the internal memories at all. . . nor did the ones that did erase the internal memories erase them with industrial/military strength overwriting. They merely reset catalogue pointers so that the data was still present in the "reset" or "erased" device.

This problem will not be solved for all older Android devices either because the manufacturers and carriers have no particular interest or benefit to push out an update to fix it.

32 posted on 08/12/2015 9:54:05 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: topspinr

Make that “ you have one of these 630,000,000 phones”. . .


33 posted on 08/12/2015 9:59:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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