Is Your Cell Phone Secure?

Link: How to Protect a Stolen Mobile Phone - wikiHow. As cell phones and smart phones have become a more important part of the mobile lawyer's life, security for the small appliances has also become important. These tiny productivity tools contain confidential, important information that can be used by the bad guys, if they get their hands on it. This post gives some simple solutions to the security problems inherent in carrying your lawyerly life around with you. My favorite is to use the password security built in to the operating system. If you have a strong password required just to turn the phone on, many thieves will just wipe the phones before they sell them on the open market. If you make regular backups to your computer (Palm OS does this automatically when you sync), you will be able to be up and running with a new phone right away. Pull the battery, and record your IME number. This will allow your cell provider to turn off access to the phone after a theft. Think secure, be secure.