02-11-2013, 07:07 AM
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Porn = bad for your smartphone
Another lovely endorsement ...
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http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/11/tech...=yes&hpt=hp_t3
We're not making any moral judgments here. But it is definitively a bad idea to visit pornography sites on your smartphone or tablet.
Nearly one-quarter of malware on mobile devices comes from porn websites, according to a new study from Blue Coat, a Web security and optimization company.
Mobile users don't check out porn sites often -- less than 1% of all mobile traffic is pornography. But when they do go to those sites, the risk of inadvertently downloading malware to their devices increases three-fold. That makes watching porn on smartphones a far bigger threat than viewing porn on a PC. ...
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Interesting figure: "Mobile users don't check out porn sites often -- less than 1% of all mobile traffic is pornography."
Big Picture: What the affect of malware and viruses on porn sites really is on sales -- maybe that is the real enemy? This should give pause to rethink some of our preconceived notions.
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