Refurbished iPhones are an excellent source of previous users' data

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Chris Cox @ May 20th 2008 7:44PM

Ummmmmm how is this news? I don't know of ANY ... ANY smartphone that does a proper wipe of data. Why are people talking like APPLE did wrong? I want someone to give me an example of a smartphone that does a proper NSA 3 pass wipe to ensure data cannot be recovered. NAME ONE. If they don't (and none of the phones do), then it is certain your data can be recovered. Blaming this on Apple only shows your ignorance.

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Shadow08 @ May 20th 2008 11:22PM

Well, apparently it's news every time Windows has a zero-day attack even though every OS and software has it's holes and problems.

I'm not a MS fanboy by any means, but the bias that's always in Apple's favor really annoys me.

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slamEVIL @ May 20th 2008 8:12PM

i think the point here is, this dude bought it directly from apple. apple didn't erase the data correctly. soooooo yes, apple did wrong.

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itsTooEasy @ May 20th 2008 8:24PM

BlackBerry (page 67):
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/deliverables/799/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Solution_Security_Technical_Overview%5B1%5D.pdf

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