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Many regions skip landlines and go straight to mobile phones. This idea that everything will get stolen because people are poor speaks to a very small subset o

• a3n 13y ago
  Your post and generalpf's post make me wonder, if a person's only internet connection is their phone, and it gets stolen, then how would you manage post-theft security features like locking, disabling, spying (on the presumed thieves) and wiping? And a further barely related thought, as phones get cheaper, what a rich spying device would be a phone dropped outside a company or government building, compared to a dropped flash drive.
  • marcosdumay 13y ago
    For your first part - smart people have backups, everbody else lose data. It was always that way, it'll always be. The only feature missing is remote locking - here at Brazil phone line locking works quite well, but not device locking, that later one requires encryption, and risks losing data (see that part about backups) so it won't become widespread, no matter how prevalent is theft. About that second point, I guess phones are already cheap enough to be used that way. Up to now it's probably more effective to just hack somebody's phone, it probably has lower risks, and a highter success ratio. If phones become more secure, I can imagine people just doing what you said.