When your phone has someone else's life on it, who do you blame?
Loaning phones is a pretty standard thing in the world of consumer tech, and usually boring enough for Atomic to stay away from with a ten-foot pole.
The iPhone already has it's own porn industry, which as of midway through last year was barreling along and doing quite the bountiful trade in booty.
This amusing story is worth a mention though - as reported by GoldCoast.com.au:
The Runaway Bay mother said a phone she borrowed from Telstra had not been reset and had also contained the previous client's personal text messages and recordings. While playing games on the mobile in the car, the woman's 10-year-old daughter came across video footage of a man involved in a sex act.
The Runaway Bay mother said a phone she borrowed from Telstra had not been reset and had also contained the previous client's personal text messages and recordings.
While playing games on the mobile in the car, the woman's 10-year-old daughter came across video footage of a man involved in a sex act.
Telstra appears to be suitably apologetic, but it really calls into question the safety of such things - should the responsibility of content on a phone fall to the loaner, or the loanee?
Porn has it's place but seriously - if you're going to make your own, make sure you take it with you when you're done (and clean the phone very well).
Issue: 107 | December, 2009