Life Skills E

February 17, 2012

Aaron Magazine

Smartphone Security Blankets

Security is a very important matter in our everyday lives, how can we protect the personal information on our phones? Many apps have come out for the Iphone and Android phones such as Find My Iphone and Lookout. The app Find My Iphone is a free app on the Itunes market and allows you to visit a website to find you lost or stolen phone on a map. You even have the capability to lock down your phone so no one can find out your personal information. Lookout has the same capability but is for the Android phone and can also download and scan your data on your phone and back it up. All of these apps are great to use not only keeping your text messaging or photos on your phone private but any bank or security information you have on your phone. Simple things such as going to a Panera and using their WiFi can be a risk to your security because a person with an okay background knowledge of technology can hack into your phone and look at the information on your phone. To protect yourself from this happening to you; you can use a virtual private network. This will allow you to be protected by making the active thing you are doing on you phone into non-sense, making the person trying to follow what you are doing impossible. Technology has advanced so much that we can track our lost devices so we can keep our privacy. If everything was open and we had no privacy our world would be corrupt. We need to protect personal information such as security code for our home, bank account information and credit cards. Now with smart phones out now, we now just have a higher risk of people accessing our data. With these apps out for our phone is a big deal and very helpful. Without technology advancements we would not have the same amount of privacy we have today. These are great apps that came out for both Android and Phones and I'm looking forward to what else the future withholds.

Cites

Brustein, Joshua. "Smartphone Security Blankets."NY Times 17 Feb. 2012: n. pag.
The New York Times. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
02/19/nyregion/smartphone-security-blankets.html?_r=1&ref=technology>.