- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:25:34 +0100
- To: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
These two articles in last weekend's New Scientist might be of interest to people here... Virtual workforce found in Kenyan refugee camp http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427305.700-refugees-set-to-tap-demand-for-virtual-workforce.html > Later this month, cellphone users in Kenya will be able to sign up to > txteagle, another remote-working service that distributes translation > and image tasks by cellphone. Nathan Eagle, a cellphone technology > researcher at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and the developer > of txteagle, estimates that 15 million Kenyans will be interested in > taking part. The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427301.100-the-pocket-spy-will-your-smartphone-rat-you-out.html > So just how secure is the data we store on our phones? If we are > starting to use them as combined diaries and wallets, what happens if > we lose them or they are stolen? And what if we simply trade in our > phones for recycling? > > According to the UK government's Design and Technology Alliance > Against Crime (DTAAC), 80 per cent of us carry information on our > handsets that could be used to commit fraud - and about 16 per cent of > us keep our bank details on our phones. I thought my Nokia N96 would > hold few surprises, though, since I had only been using it for a few > weeks when I submitted it to DiskLabs. Yet their analysts proved me > wrong. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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