iPhoneでもすでにあるが、リモートで携帯のデータを消去するシステムを犯罪で交流された人のデバイスに使われた例が６件もあったという。
民生の紛失防止のためのシステムのいわば悪用だ。
通信を切るようにすればいいだけではあるが。
シムを抜いて、WiFiをオフにすればいい。
BBCより。
Devices being remotely wiped in police custody
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29464889
All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody, the BBC has learned.
Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Durham police all told BBC News handsets had been remotely “wiped”.
And Dorset police said this had happened to six of the seized devices it had in custody, within one year.
The technology used was designed to allow owners to remove sensitive data from their phones if they are stolen.
“If a device has a signal, in theory it is possible to wipe it remotely,” said Ken Munro, a digital forensics expert with Pen Test Partners.
Romance fraud
A spokeswoman for Dorset police told the BBC: “There were six incidents, but we don’t know how people wiped them.・・・
