Is it important to secure your smart phone?
Gone are the days when cell phones were only used to talk with each other or to play some games like Snake that came by default with the device. Now as we have moved along with time things have changed so rapidly and abruptly that cells have become a part and parcel of our life. We can think of a day when we skipped our meal or a day when we skipped our office or college but it will surely take us a while to think about a day when we are away without our cell phones. I still could remember the days when the cell phone had arrived and people used to say that they are just for the purpose of show-off. But now the same people who used to comment that way have realized and accepted the importance of cell phone . But hold on a second guys, I am getting a bit diverted from my topic, for the main purpose for which I am writing this article is make you aware how and why to secure our smart phones.
Now-a-days, we do a whole lot of things with our smart phones right from logging or chatting on twitter, face book and many other social networking sites or sending emails. We even keep our banking and credit card PIN and TPIN information on our cell. But did you ever give a second thought to this that what will happen if, unfortunately, someday you tend to lose your cell or if it gets stolen. Yes, I agree now-a-days cell phone comes with the application called mobile tracker which might help you in this but then there are instances where I have found that people with this thing embedded on their device don't know how to use it or perhaps don't think the necessity to enable them. Some of my friends even answered that enabling this application only led to increase their headache for every time they changed their Sim card with another one it resulted in sending fake messages about their phone being lost with their own account balance getting deducted. While there is another section of my friends who believe that they by no way ever can be so unfortunate to lose a thing like cell phone. Well that's their point of view.
My advice for those who are not so overconfident ( as my friends who tend to think that they will never going to lose their cell phone ) should either buy and install a phone security utility like WaveSecure so that it can wipe your data remotely in case you misplace the handset or at the very list what you can do is to deploy a PIN code to lock your phone. It is always a good idea to install a phone security application as well.
Believe me I ask you to follow this preventive measures because once you lost your cell phone in India there is hardly you can do anything about it rather than lodging an FIR complaint at the local police station or blocking your Sim through customer care of your Sim service provider. You don't have the privilege of blocking your lost mobile handset through your device IMEI number which I am quite sure is available in other countries.
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