How to harden your smartphone against stalkers - Android edition
Posted in: Mobile & Wireless at 15/05/2012 16:37
Stalking via mobile phone has become a favorite activity of the mentally unhinged everywhere -- jilted wives, jealous boyfriends, or any one person who cannot stop obsessing over another. Most smartphones today contain everything a stalker needs to keep solid tabs on their mark, and, in contrast to iPhones and iOS, the Android platform is much more open.
Android users can easily root their phones, sideload apps, and use all of Google's services to communicate reams of information. This flexibility is great when used for good, creative purposes. But it's also very easy to turn them around and use them against someone. A stalker can place an Android phone user in a compromised position simply by getting their Google account password or getting access to the phone itself, even for only a minute or two.
To read this Ars Technica report in full, see:
arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/how-to-harden-your-smartphone-against-stalkers-android-edition/
