From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org
On 1/02/2026 8:53 pm, John wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:03:53 +1100, Daniel70
> wrote:
>> On 21/01/2026 5:18 am, Maria Sophia wrote:
>>> Peter Johnson wrote:
>>>>> However, if you were wanting to protect your Data from so burglar
>>>>> .... then maybe!! (if you are a pessimist!!)
>>>>>
>>>> When a house near me was burgled a few years ago they weren't
>>>> interested in consumer electronics, only jewellery. Which suggests
>>>> that they knew there was jewellery present but that's another
>>>> story. (I have a NAS in my hall, and suspect that in the event of
>>>> burglary it would be ignored. (There are others backing it up
>>>> elsehere in the house that are not so obvious.))
>>>
>>> I'm on the Apple and Android newsgroups where I deprecate the
>>> marketing gimmicks of biometrics using the derogatory term that
>>> people who live in the slums are who need to protect their devices
>>> from their own family.
>>>
>>> As such, I haven't had a password or PIN on any device unless it
>>> requires it, which as far as I know, only iOS requires you to have a
>>> password to the mothership account (but you don't need to protect the
>>> device itself).
>>
>> It intrigues me when I see someone who has to enter a Password on their
>> Mobile Phone before they can use it.
>>
>> WHY??
>>
>> As long as YOU don't lose your mobile phone, WHY do you need to secure it??
>>
>> (I don't do Banking/Credit Card on my mobile phone so what would I lose
>> if I lost it?? Photos!!)
>
> My sister once bricked her 'phone. She had valued photos on it. Her
> carrier told her that they had a series of snapshots of her camera's
> storage area backed up on their servers which could be dumped onto a
> new 'phone, selectively or en masse.
AH!! So Big Brother *IS* watching!!
> I am not sure if that is a universal attribute of mobiles. Mine cost
> twenty quids and doesn't have a camera. I only recently bought it
> because UKland carriers told me that my decades old, £20 phone *with*
> a camera would die when they switched off 3G. The SIM may work on 4/5G
> but the machine itself can not.
We "shut down" 3G about 2 maybe 3 years ago .... so that's how old my
current Phone is. If I turn around, I can see my previous three mobiles
in the Bookcase!!
> Neither of those 'phones has any security whatsoever.
>
> Apart from them being in my coat pocket.
>
>>> Of course, I practice good computer hygiene, so I don't have anything
>>> on my devices that a burglar could use against me,
>>
>> Yeap!
>>
>>> which means my medical and financial records are in a Veracrypt
>>> encrypted volume while my passwords are in KeepassXC on Windows (with
>>> compatible apps for them on Android).
>>
>> Too Hi-Tech for me. ;-P
>
> Yeah, best to let your G.P. and clinics sell your data to a variety
> of commercial entities and ultimately to Apple, Microsoft and Meta.
I'm P.O.ed when, moments after speaking to my Doctor's receptionist to
make an appointment, I get a SMS from some third party service telling
me I have an upcoming Doctor's appointment.
I do!! REALLY??
And 'they' want me to register with that SMS Service!! Pigs ARSE!!
> Those guys keep *everything* and they keep it *forever*. You know that
> your data is secure and safe with them.
>
> UKland, where our Government *protects* our valued, private,
> confidential data really, really well so we don't need to.
And we ALL know ... Security is OH SO SECURE!!
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Daniel70
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