Alan Browne

Sounds like complete BS to me:

QUOTE
“I’ve been told that if you use an iPhone or BlackBerry, everything on
it — contacts, calendar, e-mails — can be downloaded in a second. Allit
takes is someone sitting near you on a subway waiting for you to turn it
on, and they’ve got it,” said Kenneth Lieberthal, a former senior White
House official for Asia who is at the Brookings Institution.
UNQUOTE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z3

or http://tinyurl.com/3thwyvm


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John McWilliams

On 9/27/11 PDT 5:24 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>
> Sounds like complete BS to me:
>
> QUOTE
> “I’ve been told that if you use an iPhone or BlackBerry, everythingon
> it — contacts, calendar, e-mails — can be downloaded in a second. All it
> takes is someone sitting near you on a subway waiting for you to turn it
> on, and they’ve got it,” said Kenneth Lieberthal, a former senior White
> House official for Asia who is at the Brookings Institution.
> UNQUOTE
>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z3
>
>
> or http://tinyurl.com/3thwyvm


We seem to have a dearth of BS in these groups..... :-)

And here's a great way to avoid tapping:

"One security expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid
drawing scrutiny from the Chinese government, buys a new iPad for each
visit, then never uses it again."

Some expert, huh??

Jeffrey Goldberg

On 11-09-27 7:24 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>
> Sounds like complete BS to me:

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z3

I tried to find the research or analysis that the article was based on.
Or even something in the technology press. I don't think there is any.

One problem with the reporting of security issues in the general and
technology press is that the more hyperbolic the claims the more tweets
and retweets it gets. It looks like the Washington Post is trying to
get into that game.

Cheers,

-j

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Wes Groleau

On 09-27-2011 08:24, Alan Browne wrote:
> Sounds like complete BS to me:
>
> QUOTE
> “I’ve been told that if you use an iPhone or BlackBerry, everything on
> it — contacts, calendar, e-mails — can be downloaded in a second. All it
> takes is someone sitting near you on a subway waiting for you to turn it
> on, and they’ve got it,� said Kenneth Lieberthal, a former senior White
> House official for Asia who is at the Brookings Institution.
> UNQUOTE

"He has been told." Could it be that his gullibility is why he is
a _former_ White House official, and is now in an institution? :-)

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