Samsung division CEO bans SGH-B570 8GB musicphones
By Marc Perton 
posted May 25th 2006 11:57AM
posted May 25th 2006 11:57AM
We've heard stories about companies banning the use of certain kinds of products, such as cameraphones or digital audio players, since they could potentially be used to snap pics of or download classified info. But in what must be a first-of-its-kind case, Samsung has actually banned employees from using one of the company's own products out of industrial espionage fears. Ki-Tae Lee, CEO of Samsung Electronics Telecommunications Network, has apparently warned employees not to pick up the company's SGH-B570 cellphones, because the music-playing phone's 8GB capacity "is more than enough to steal all confidential data about our company." No word yet as to whether Lee is also banning Samsung's various thumbdrives, USB hard drives and audio players, which can also be used to slurp company data. Also, we have to admit to being just a little disappointed that all of the company's confidential data can fit on a single 8GB cellphone. What does that say about Samsung's R&D capabilities?Read (sub. req'd.)
lol and yet if i brough a 20 gb external drive or somehting and ran the wire through my sleeve nobody would even know
in reply to poster # 1- dont you think they would notice that?? whats the use of having a 20gb drive that you cnanot take out of the building if you were to bring it in, that you cannot do anything with? with an 8gb phone, you can put data onto it, then wirelessly send that data anywhere you want to from the phone itself. i work at ups and they do not check anyone going in for stuff, they just check your id. on the way out, you go through a metal detector and then get wanded. the low paid security gets around $500 for each theif they find.
so what im tryin to say is, find someone who cares that you have a compact 20gb external drive
It says that they have some great compression technology to fit all their confidential data on 8GB :)