Last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw the theft of a prototype HTC phone that was running an early build of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5. The device was taken from Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo. Shortly after the theft, Microsoft wiped they device clean of all information remotely.
The device, a previously unreleased HTC Touch Diamond handset, was picked right from the pocket of Sol Trujillo directly after a demonstration. There has been much speculation as to what could be at stake on the demo product — personal/business information, highly sensitive emails or documents, and of course product information.
APC reports: “We spoke to a senior Microsoft staffer on condition of anonymity and they revealed that, other than the theft of a handset, the entire operating system and all the user data on the handset were remotely erased as soon as the theft was reported.”
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