Songwriters: Protecting Your Cellphone Against Hackers Could Be Crucial for Song Protection
We frequently hear from songwriters that they’re highly fearful of their music being stolen. If you fall in that category, now there’s another worry. Your smartphone. We all know about being careful about the websites we visit, the emails we open and links we click, but the dangers of losing data to a smartphone hacker is fairly new. The New York times brings it to our attention in a new tech article as follows:
Chuck Bokath would be terrifying if he were not such a nice guy. A jovial senior engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, Mr. Bokath can hack into your cellphone just by dialing the number. He can remotely listen to your calls, read your text messages, snap pictures with your phone’s camera and track your movements around town — not to mention access the password to your online bank account.
As cellphones have gotten smarter, they have become less like phones and more like computers, and thus susceptible to hacking. But unlike desktop or even most laptop computers, cellphones are almost always on hand, and are often loaded with even more personal information. So an undefended or carelessly operated phone can result in a breathtaking invasion of individual privacy as well as the potential for data corruption and outright theft.
Read more via Protecting a Cellphone Against Hackers – NYTimes.com.
