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Understanding mobile device hardware risk

Understanding mobile device hardware risk

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Understanding mobile device hardware risk

- [Instructor] Mobile devices are marvels of modern engineering. Full computing power integrated with a stack of technologies, a mobile device is a breathtaking powerhouse of data creation and gathering. The laptop and desktop computers of the past decade empowered work and progress at what seemed like breakneck speed. The leap in production, communication, and understanding powered by these systems has been breathtaking. Yet it was only the early dawn of what was to come. Consumer computers required human input. On my laptop I work with spreadsheets, documents, and email. I design websites, record music, and manage my photo albums. I input one set of data at a time manually. I was always aware of the data I was manipulating, my brain was able to keep track of what was occurring on the system. That changed with the introduction of the mobile device. Smartphone hardware is designed to gather multiple streams of data simultaneously and often continuously. This stream of data is then…

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