"I'm skeptical that we've got some chemical or physical treatment that does something good when we don't even know what the baseline is," Eisen told me, referring to what kinds of bacteria — and how much — one should expect to find on a perfectly safe phone.
Secusmart, the company that built the chancellor's "safe" phone, issued a statement saying that its product had not been bugged.
Right now this stuff is pretty limited, but if users get wind of it, or enough of these apps take down enough Droids, people will decide Android isn't a "safe" mobile phone OS.
— Billy Baker (@billy_baker) 15 Apr 13 Keep passing people making the "Mom, I'm safe" phone call.
"Practice safe phone," Dr. Davis told me when she came into the San Francisco TechCrunchTV studio to talk about Disconnect.
And even the Americans are beginning to wake up to the threat, with enlightened city governments in Berkeley and San Francisco now encouraging their residents to practice safe phone.
Recently refurbished, each room has a satellite TV with major international channels, a radio, a safe, a bedside phone and a fridge.
Such was the case with Boris Vaisman, who dropped out of Y Combinator's winter batch (where he was on kid-safe phone lockdown tool, Kyte).
1. Keep a safe distance from your phone.
Hardell concedes it is too soon to determine a safe limit for cell phone use.
