[Amamba]

To have a strong password you can't use a regular dictionary word. A brutal-force dictionary attack is very simple.

So if someone steals my phone, opens Word, starts typing and sees something like "So4fb45e0" in the list of suggested words, it should be fairly obvious that this is a password used on the phone, all it takes is some patience to see what site or application would accept it.

Now of course one can hope that a would-be thief is dumb enough to have no understanding of even the simplest WinMob things, yet smart enough to hard-reset the phone before trying to sell it.

However this is like hiding your head in sand. Look how much effort is spent to combat phishing scams and how sophisticated the bad guys get lately. I suspect that an intelligent thief would already know, by now, that the real value of the stolen phone is the data it can allow access to. Like your login credentials, bank accounts, etc.

I can't believe this kind of a security hole was left on our devices.