It's also possible for those of us that have business email via Active Sync
to MS Exchange to have our System Admin do a remote wipe of the device
directly out of Exchange. This bricks the device if still on without any
choice as I understand it. The device can be recovered by DFU mode to
restore the OS but seems to scramble the original content. Our Sysadmin had
to do this for the first time last week when an employee had his phone
stolen. According to him the wipe process was pretty swift and was provided
a report of success when completed. Granted it's not likely as secure as say
a DBAN of a HDD would be but put our data out of the hands of the thief (in
our experience these sorts of thefts seem to rarely be committed by someone
who knows how to recover data, our last laptop theft that was recovered
hadn't even been turned on or separated from the docks they took with them).
Dan S
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Barker
Subject: Re: [OM] more ranting rebuttal.
Yes, it's possible to wipe the information from my iPhone, but I have to
agree to it. In fact it's a security feature (make of that what you will).
I should have said that this thread was going a little OTT. As Chuck said,
it would be detrimental to Apple's business; or in other words, a rather
daft idea.
Chris
On 22 Jul 2011, at 17:25, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> We allow people at work to use their own iPhone for company email, but
they
> have to sign an agreement that if they leave the company we will remotely
> wipe the data off their phone. Same for Blackberry. I think all the
> manufacturers recognise that without such a possibility they exclude
> themselves from corporate sales.
> Jez
>
> On 22 July 2011 17:13, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>> A little more imagination here, Ed. I have no notion of the things that
>> Ken says are buried in user agreements or that Apple would act on them
>> even if the agreement is as he says it is. However, Apple owns the OS
>> and the updates to the OS. They could at any time install a Trojan
>> horse. In fact they could have already done so long ago. You would
>> never know it. In fact, as a former OS development manager, I would
>> assert that it could be done without the knowledge of 99% of their own
>> OS developers.
>>
>> I believe that such would likely be detrimental to Apple's business in
>> the longer term but "how would they?" is an extremely easy question to
>> answer. "Would they?" is another question entirely. I have no answer
>> to that one.
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