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Use the duress password for added protection

Author: Vo Minh
by Vo Minh
Posted: Sep 18, 2017

People do most of their activities online today. The main activities include transferring funds between accounts as well as purchasing from the online stores. These are great ventures as people are showing acceptance of newer technologies. However, such activities have their drawbacks. One should be very careful while using the internet for conducting financial transactions. You transmit a lot of data and hence you are prone to hacking. This calls for embracing new security systems such as ECC encrypted messaging and so on. People should also note not to share their passwords with others.

You have just seen in an earlier blog how we had explained the use of specific access codes for activating the latest security systems. You have eliminated the involvement of the third party in the process. However, you can very lose your password or the access codes either accidentally or through other methods like coercion or force. It can happen that someone can force you into divulging your password. Under such circumstances, it should be the end of the game for you. Is that what you think? In fact, it is not so. There are ways by which you can outwit your assailant. Of course, it requires some guts from your side as well.

Consider the case when someone forces you to part with the access codes to your system. They threaten you with dire circumstances if you do not do so. Under such circumstances, it could be natural of you to become afraid and divulge the password. You can outwit the assailant by parting with a duress password. This password is a special one that you decide in advance. On punching this password, the system starts erasing all the data from the phone thereby making it absolutely useless for the assailant.

In this way, you can safeguard your data. Your assailant will not be able to gain access to your phone under any circumstances. This is a beautiful way to thwart his intentions.

There are other ways by which you can lose your phone. You might just misplace it somewhere. Somebody could pick your pocket as well. Under such circumstances, your phone can land in the wrong hands. Your smartphone contains a lot of important data. Losing the phone can be disastrous for you. Letting the data fall into the wrong hands can be catastrophic. You have the facility of wiping your data clean from a remote location using the Remote Wipe option.

Using this Remote wipe password, you are able to erase all your data from the phone thereby saving it from falling into the wrong hands. Of course, your phone should be in the ON position with access to the internet. You have the facility of wiping the data clean by seeking the help of the ECC support website.

The main endeavor of the application is to make things easy for the user. Safety is of prime importance in any case. This application ensures that your data remains pilfer proof by discouraging hackers and unscrupulous elements.

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