India official drains entire dam to retrieve phone
(www.bbc.com)
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A thing they teach in remote places is that water conservation is critical. To drain an entire dam just to retrieve a phone that wouldn't even work because yeah, it's obviously water logged is just stupid.
To be fair, it may be possible for a data recovery service to unsolder and read out the flash chips
I hope they can also decrypt that stuff.
Someone dumb enough to drop a phone with critical data in a river might not be smart enough to have encryption
Tru I think iPhones always do by default, and most android phones don't. I mean last I checked. He said it was Samsung, but it was worth 1200 dollars so maybe a new one that has full disk encryption by default. It's becoming fairly standard for android with most phone hardware also accelerating its operation.
It’s India. There would 100% be corruption on the side (perhaps someone else benefitted from this, somehow), but also, he probably is also just that stupid and inept…