Posted on 02/10/2017 8:10:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
The idea of a self-destructing phone is usually something you only encounter in goofy spy movies, but it’s actually a potentially valuable invention that could aid in security for high profile individuals. A team of researchers in Saudi Arabia have built a prototype of a self-destructing gadget for the real world that can completely destroy a device in as little as ten seconds, and can be programmed to automatically trigger itself under certain conditions.
The mechanism works by channeling the power from the device’s battery into electrodes that rapidly heat, triggering the release and expansion of a special polymer that quickly expands and crushes the processor of the device.
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BS. Your traffic is maintained by the providers. That is a whole lot more valuable than data-at-rest on the phone instrument itself.
Wow forget boob belts. Now they are using phones. Well at least they are trying to progress forward.
Crushing the processor? Might as well wipe it with a cloth.
English majors writing about tech....
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Fools. Everything they transmit is captured and stored in that super secret Utah facility.
This kind of thing is for the elite.
The Utah building could produce emails from little people in two (2) minutes.
But for Hillary... apparently they didn’t collect her emails.
Let me guess, it’s a galaxy 7 with the stock battery.
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I lot of people left cell phones in the car.
I doubt people who find them give a ### what the providers have.
And some people leave a TON of stuff on their phone.
Not everything is to avoid a RICO statute.
D’Oh! Ya beat me, Karl, LOL!
Lol! I think that was what I was thinking, but couldn’t exactly remember: “This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds...”
Really? Like what? MP3 files? Selfies?
Text messages, contact lists...
Bank apps with remembered passwords. Credit cards apps with remembered password.
Phone number of a slew of people who rather not have their numbers out there floating around.
A ####load of pictures they probably wished they didn’t take :)
Too late. Samsung already has the market cornered on self-destructing phones and clothes washers. :)
Don't know about you, but my bank app and my credit card app doesn't allow me to save a password (not that I'd want to do so at all anyway). In fact, my bank app wants a fingerprint scan nowadays.
Phone number of a slew of people who rather not have their numbers out there floating around.
Data in motion: carrier records have all that.
A ####load of pictures they probably wished they didn’t take :)
I'll agree with you there.
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