Software maker Avast is calling the security and thoroughness of Androids factory reset feature into serious doubt today. The company says it purchased 20 used Android smartphones online and set out to test whether personal user data could be recovered from them. Each phone had been reset prior to being sold, according to Avast, so in theory the test should have failed miserably. Using widely available forensic software, Avast says it was able to successfully pull up over 40,000 photos previously stored on the phones.
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