Post by wittzo on Mar 28, 2005 20:55:12 GMT -6
You look purty when you're nekkid, how about a date? I already got your number and your friends' numbers...
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www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1779743,00.asp?kc=ewnws032805dtx1k0000599
Nude Pix Put Cops In a Fix
By Libe Goad
March 25, 2005
Forget Paris Hilton; here's a wireless security story that'll make one's heart pulsate the next time a cell phone or PDA lands in someone else's possession.
Houston police officer Christopher Green, after arresting a woman on suspicion of drunken driving, allegedly downloaded sexually explicit pictures from her confiscated cell phone onto his PDA and then showed them to several colleagues.
Internal investigators have stepped in to examine the situation and reports that Green's partner, George Miller, later called the woman and asked her for a date.
Both officers have been pulled from their usual patrolling duties.
"We're sort of waiting to see what's going to happen," Houston Police Officers' Union attorney Aaron Suder told the Houston Chronicle, which broke the story Friday.
This news is another indicator that wireless privacy and security is becoming a more visible issue, especially as it's becoming the norm for portable devices outfitted with wireless capability.
For companies, security on employees' portable wireless devices, such as cell phones and PDAs, has already started to become a major part of the IT infrastructure.
Some companies have taken the first step, mandating that employees refrain from using work-issued portable devices for any personal matter.
Forrester Principal Analyst Ellen Daley says companies have also been starting to require power-on passwords and in terms of data disposal, setting up scenarios that will let the company kill the data on a device remotely if, say, an employee forgets a BlackBerry at happy hour or tosses an old cell phone in the trash after receiving a new one.
