With cell phones being almost indispensible in today's age of tech savvy, making life easy gadgets, it becomes only pertinent that you take all the precautions to protect your cell phone. This could mean protection against damage, theft, robbery or misuse.
When you walk out of the mobile store with your brand new phone, it becomes your duty and responsibility to take all steps to protect your one. It is not the fault of the cell phone manufacturer or dealer if you happen to lose your phone or it is stolen. There are a few safety menasures which are built in the phone and it becomes your responsibility to activate them and use their protection.
The new iphone has a few security measures which can go a long way to protect your phone from misuse when it is lost or stolen.
- Do not ever leave your phone unlocked- this is one major mistake you can do putting your iphone at great risk. Practice locking your phone and entering the unlock code as many times as possible till it becomes engrained in your system. This will come so easily to you after all the practice that it will no longer seem like a big inconvenience. Try doing like with your less dominant hand so that you can do it at the drop of a hat and as naturally as possible.
- Always carry your phone with you- the most common mistake people make is leaving their iphone unattended. This could be anywhere, in the car seat, or at the work desk. It can easily be swiped by en expert thief or it can be taken, unlocked and used to access vital information. If it goes into wrong hands then it can even be used to browse the net leaving it susceptible to all kinds of viruses and encrypted codes all over the internet.
- Make sure your iTunes host is secure- your PIN does not protect all the information on your phone if someone gets their hands of your computer. Your PC or Mac has a complete flash image of all the memory on your iphone. Once the hacker gets access to this information it will not take too long for him to move firmware from your disk to a thumb drive. Once this is done he can replace the firmware on your iphone with something undesirable. The only solution to this is to keep back up of your iphone memory on your own thumb drive.
- You have to keep up with apple's firmware updates-the well known flaw of design of apple's firmware which allowed access to the address book through the emergency call option was rectified some time ago. Apple still requires desktop tools to keep up with firmware updates. Designing another way to update firmware will help keep the iphone more secure.
- Refrain from jail breaking your iphone- if you jailbreak your phone, it automatically disarms all the mechanism apple built to protect your phon
- Hide highly sensitive data- the iphone has no encrypted data system. Encrypted databases are not supported by iphones. It will do you good to scatter your personal, sensitive data all over like your iPod memory or browser bookmarks. That way a hacker will obviously not find any sensitive information.
Following these few simple steps will definitely over more safety to your iphone.
