Have You Ever Lost Your Phone (and Gotten It Back)? [Ask The Readers]

We've featured lots of ways to find your lost or stolen phone, but we're wondering how many of you have actually gotten your phone back after losing it.

A recent experiment by Symantec purposely "lost" 50 smartphones in cities around the US. Symantec found that only 50% of of those smartphones ever had a chance at being returned, and even 96% of them were accessed by their finders—in more privacy-breaking ways than one:

This may have started as an attempt to discover the owner of the phone, but our research shows that the finders of these devices had what can graciously be called a curiosity about more than the name of the owner. Case in point:

Six out of 10 finders attempted to view social media information and email.Eight out of 10 finders tried to access corporate information, including files clearly marked as "HR Salaries," "HR Cases", and other types of corporate information.

If you are in any way associated with securing a company's valuable information, those are pretty striking numbers. However, it is not just business-related information that is at risk and a cause for legitimate concern. Our "honey stick" smartphones also had an application that appeared to allow access to a remote computer or network. Surely, people wouldn't go that far. Well, one out of every two finders tried to run the "Remote Admin" app.

Apart from being yet another warning to lock your device, this study piqued our curiosity. I've never lost my phone, but I've returned two or three that I found on the street. We're wondering: have you ever lost your phone, and if so, did you ever get it back? Tell us your tales of success (or woe) in the comments. And hit the link to read more about the study and Symantec's recommendations for protecting your data.

Bake Bread in a Coffee Can for Perfectly Round, Evenly Baked Loaves with Little Crust [Kitchen Hacks]

 If you like your sandwiches with the crusts cut off, or you're making loaves of spiced or flavored bread to give away as gifts, the path to a perfectly cooked loaf—or multiple loaves cooked at the same time—may be as close as an old coffee can. Coffee can bread is an old, old technique designed to make it easy to bake multiple loaves at once, resulting in perfectly round slices of bread with little crust and more soft homemade bread to enjoy. Just because it's old doesn't mean the technique is out of date.

When digging into this tip, I found dozens of recipes for all sorts of coffee can bread, including one bakery that's trying to revive the tradition as a way to make gift loaves of sandwich bread, pumpkin bread, and brown bread, a dark, chewy bread that's steamed rather than baked. There's some debate over the safety of cooking in a coffee can (and how frequently people buy coffee in cans these days—even though they're still all over grocery stores) and which brands package their coffee in straight metal cans versus those with liners you shouldn't heat, but everyone agrees that the result is delicious, and perfect for people who want to bake lots of bread in a short period all at once.

Is coffee can bread a family recipe in your household? Perhaps it's something your grandmother used to make? Hit the link below for a couple of recipes from Ready Nutrition, and let us know in the comments below if you'd give coffee can bread a try, or you'd just go out and buy a loaf pan and call it a day.

Thank to reader Mary for sending in the tip!

Bake Bread from a Coffee Can | Ready Nutrition

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