The Risk Of A Borrowed Phone

You might want to be careful if your mobile phone breaks and you get a “loaner.” A man in the UK apparently did just that, but didn’t realize that the text messages stored on the phone had not been erased — something that greatly upset his wife, when she discovered messages suggesting her husband was having an affair. Ah, the comedy of errors that modern technology causes…


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