Destruction Via E-Mail National Public Radio

Do you know when you set up your smart phone to receive company emails via Microsoft Exchange Server, you invite the ability for your company to "remote wipe" your phone even if your account is owned and paid by you? iPads and other mobile devices can also be similarly wiped clean from remote IT admins. Read or listen to the whole report over at NPR.

Comments (3)

i listened to this yesterday, and it's a crap story with a whiner being interviewed. Sorry, while it may be your personal phone, you're storying corporate data. the simple solution is, if you don't want to risk your phone being wiped, don't store the company's info on it.
I had to fight all sorts of market and sales people insisting that they be allowed to sync personal phones to corporate systems...that's fine, but know the risk. Considering the healthcare information that these people were then storing on their phone, I don't think there's a person in the world that would care that I had the power to remotely remove that data if the phone was lost, the employee moved on to a new job, etc.

errr...storing...not storying.

...and this is a surprise? corporate email is corporate email, regardless of who owns the device. When a phone is lost or stolen remote wipe is essential.