Cell phones won't keep your secrets

[source: CNN.com]

We should be careful not to give away phones without wiping them clean of data. Probably, the complete process of wiping out the data should come with the user manual, does it? who reads the manual ;-)

I use Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone and it does come with a clean wipe application which wipes it clean. I'll go ahead one more step and make sure by hard resetting (complicated procedure, sometimes requires 2 people) the device before I pass it over.

later...