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Telstra's porn problem

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Telstra's porn problem
By Justin Robinson
Apr 15, 2009 | 8 Comments
Tags: Telstra | porn

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.

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).

 

 
 
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Apoptosis
Apr 15, 2009 1:15 PM
What does this have to do with an iPhone? If it's a personal porn video then it's NOT an iphone because it can't record video...
TheFrunj
Apr 15, 2009 1:19 PM
Ah, you're correct, I had a brainfart and thought I'd read iPhone in there somewhere. *changed* :)

-JR
Mademan
Apr 15, 2009 1:25 PM
Much like the news article on gamespy, reporting a father who had purchased his 12 yr old son a used copy of a GTA game, only to have his son find several ecstasy tablets hidden in the manual.

I think it's the fault of the loaner - imagine if it was a file of confidential telstra information, they would go ape shit.
Apoptosis
Apr 15, 2009 1:39 PM
Hehe, "Telstra's Porn Problem" sounds much more nefarious :P
spooner
Apr 15, 2009 8:33 PM
I hate to admit i work for the T, not sure on the policy but im pretty certain it would be a full default reset on a loan phone. I guess with so many models, os and menu's it must get confusing on how to do this correctly. But seriously if u had a loan phone while yours was in for repair, why would you record your self doing the wild thing on it?
nicknet
Apr 16, 2009 7:38 AM
Cycorder records video's (and audio) fine on the iphone. Sure it's highly unlikely Telstra loaned a JailBroken phone to a customer.. although that phone did have video's of porn on it so hey anything's possible :P

N3M3SiS
Apr 16, 2009 2:17 PM
Okay everyone needs to chill the fuck out and address this issue correctly...

You found porn on your phone and you're complaining?
Sher Khan
Apr 21, 2009 11:42 AM
If it doesn't have smurfs or umpalumpas doing the 'wild thang' you can keep the porn off my phone thankyou very much! In this case Telstra is guilty of supplying pornography to a minor. It doesn't matter if they knew about it or not. As THE MAJOR share holders in the company the Australian Government is likewise guilty of breaking it's own anti-porn laws by proxy. Any reasonable person would expect the data on the phone to be erased after the loan.
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