Meanwhile a journalist's
phone is examined by airport security. But when officials look to see
what is on it, they find that she has spent all her time at the beach.
The drug dealer and the journalist are free to go. Minutes later the
names, numbers and GPS data that the police were looking for reappear.A new programming technique could bring these scenarios to life. Computer scientist Karl-Johan Karlsson has reprogrammed a phone to lie. By modifying the operating system of an Android-based smartphone, he was able to put decoy data on it—innocent numbers, for example—so that the real data escape forensics. (more)
