Selling your old phone once you upgrade to a fancier model can be like handing over your diaries. All sorts of sensitive information pile up inside our cellphones, and deleting it may be more difficult than you think.A popular practice among sellers, resetting the phone, often means sensitive information appears to have been erased. But it can be resurrected using specialized yet inexpensive software found on the Internet.The married man's girlfriend sent a text message to his cellphone: His wife was getting suspicious. Perhaps they should cool it for a few days."So," she wrote, "I'll talk to u next week.""You want a break from me? Then fine," he wrote back.Later, the married man bought a new phone. He sold his old one on eBay, at Internet auction, for $290.The guys who bought it now know his secret.The married man had followed the directions in his phone's manual to erase all his information, including lurid exchanges with his lover. But it wasn't enough....
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