Re: Erasure of Mobile Phone Data

[Tim Lane <tlane () SCU EDU AU>]

OK so this morning I delved into some research and came up with the below
handy website - it's not a tool as such but you can basically download data
deletion instructions for pretty much any mobile phone that most users could
follow.



http://www.recellular.com/recycling/data_eraser/default.asp



We have organised so that staff who are handing in an old phone for
replacement have to sign to say they have followed instructions to remove
all data.



This is a reasonable work around at this point in time for us.



Tim





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Sent: Tuesday, 3 March 2009 10:20 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Erasure of Mobile Phone Data



Greetings All,



does anyone use or have knowledge of a program or simple user based method
that can erase all user data from mobile phones (I am talking voice, text
and MMS messages, data (encrypted and unencrypted), web history, saved
passwords, contacts etc etc).



Thanks,



Tim



Tim Lane

Information Security & Disaster Recovery Manager

Information Technology & Telecommunication Services
Southern Cross University

Ph  + 61 2 6620 3290

Fax + 61 2 6620 3033

Mobile +61 418 248 571



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