Why I don’t carry a smart phone, and maybe never will

We Need More Things To Worry About Department:

With thanks to faithful reader LJ, I now find my irrational fear of smart phones totally rational. I have a friend who calls all phones “spy chips,” and the more I learn, the more convinced I am he’s right.

CNN.com carried an interesting article about how our mobile phones are becoming Frankenstein’s monsters, just smart enough and totally out of our control: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/28/opinion/mobile-frankenstein-keen/index.html?hpt=hp_c2.

And it’s striking coincidence that both the Scientific American Book Club and the Science Fiction Book Club selected When Gadgets Betray Us (http://whengadgetsbetrayus.com/). The line between “science” and “fiction” is getting awfully thin.

My analyst friend Herbbie also passes along a nice article: “Hackers Can Follow You Via Your Cell Phone”: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/hackers-can-follow-you-via-your-cell-phone/10415?tag=nl.e660. So who cares? Well, some of my clients might just care a whole lot.