Frozen Android phones give up data secrets

[dipsydoodle]

Freezing an Android phone can help reveal its confidential contents, German security researchers have found.

The team froze phones for an hour as a way to get around the encryption system that protects the data on a phone by scrambling it.

Google introduced the data scrambling system with the version of Android known as Ice Cream Sandwich.

The attack allowed the researchers to get at contact lists, browsing histories and photos.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21697704

[Sherman A1]

1. Interesting

and disturbing.

[longship]

2. Make sure you wipe your Android before you fall into a glacial crack.

Or get covered in an avalanche.

That way, porn will never be discussed, sotto voce, at your funeral.

You cannot be too careful.