In all, 36% of respondents said they don't have a phone password.
The phone is password protected, and of course I can remotely wipe it at any time.
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Please do remember, friends, that even if your phone has a password, the contents can often be accessed once the phone is linked to a computer.
These days, I only link my phone up to my password-protected wireless network at home.
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Rather than placing the phone in inventory, as is appropriate when an item is seized incident to arrest, Officer Bocci bypassed the password on the phone and searched its contents.
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Putting a password on your phone is good for keeping a paranoid significant other from snooping.
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Unless care is taken to password protect a phone, the risk of this financial related information getting into wrong hands could be high.
When you feel like snagging yourself a pair of fly kicks, all you'd need to do is enter your username and password, or phone number and PIN.
Apple hasn't been as direct about what's going on, but Wired believes there's been a 24-hour hold on phone-based Apple ID password resets while the company marshals its resources and decides how much extra strictness is required.
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That's a recipe for disaster when their phone isn't protected by a password, he said.
But in the meantime, if you're in California and are concerned about privacy and your constitutional rights, it's a good idea to protect your cell phone and other electronic devices with a password or encryption.
Over the course of the next eight hours Thompson took between 10 and 12 more phone calls, each beginning with a different password.
Typically it's something you know, like a password, and something you have, like your cell phone or a key fob.
Checking my email on my phone I found two messages from Twitter - each telling me that my password had been reset "as a precautionary security measure".
Customers typically choose a login and password so that their bank information can't be accessed if a phone is lost or stolen.
Gmail service offers an option for users to access their email accounts using both a password, and a numerical code separately sent to the authorized user's mobile phone.
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Security features on Windows Phone 8 include secure boot, which ensures the phone only runs authentic software and passwords with the ability to pre-define the number of failed password attempts.
Two-step verification drastically reduces the chances of someone stealing the personal information from your e-mail account because hackers would have to not only get a password and your user name, they would also have to have access to the mobile phone to which the code is sent.
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