From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   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.   
      
    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.   
      
    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.   
   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.   
      
      
                                                                 J.   
      
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