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Little macro running on my phone, that as soon as my smartwatch gets out of range, it locks the screen.
How do you do that?
I remember doing something weird with automate to make it work, but i don't exactly remember what i did. Since it' been so long.
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I don't have a smartphone. I don't often go out with my phone. Nobody want to steal my phone. But it has no security features, it's a really bad phone. It's not linked to an account, there are just some messages and numbers and that's all. That's not good but not that bad, and I'm ok 3 months without phone.
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Is this a thing, like are most thiefs not interested in selling the hardware?
To answer the question: Id be pretty fckd i guess. Passwords are gated behind a password manager but my E-Mail would be exposed.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]May be overthinking it a bit, the typical opportunistic thief that would try to snatch a phone and run is just looking to see what bank apps you have installed. Usually they are looking to see if you have something like Venmo installed so they can go into your app and send themselves your money. Venmo of course will say that money was transferred from your phone so it was clearly you and there's nothing to dispute, hence you're fucked.
These type of thieves already know to try to keep the screen unlocked long enough to do that, afterwards they usually just toss the phone somewhere. The phone hardware itself isn't that useful while it's still locked down and tied to someone's Google/Apple account, most phones are firmware locked in that fashion. Sure they could wait it out until you finally remove the phone from your Google/Apple account but every time they check it'll keep giving out their location, not really worth it.
Nowadays current Android phones do have theft protection to prevent loss in a snatch attempt e.g. my Android has settings to auto lock it if it detects fast movement while unlocked, and it also auto locks if the entire phone itself has been set offline/airplane mode for a while.
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Pretty much anything sensitive on my phone (email, finances, 2fa, passwords) is protected by Face ID. It also helps that I don’t really go to large gatherings, so the odds of my phone being swiped, while unlocked, are very slim. In public, I use my Apple Watch to view notifications, so again my phone is really not out that often. I’m not worried.
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The only thing on my phone that could do anything like that would be the SIM itself, and luckily that'd a single call I'd do right away.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Depends on how you look at it. By and large screwed until I get it remotely locked maybe. On the other hand I only have a smarthphone for work reasons and it mostly stays at home and if I have it out its for its phone function and a thief would be hard pressed to find a point where I had it unlocked.
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This is such an important distinction to make. Being able to wipe the phone would require a second device, so unless you are with someone who has access to that phone, you have to wait until you get home to initiate it.
Iirc my pixel has a "in case your phone is stolen from you" automation. Though I don't know the mechanics of how it works.
Yeah, I couldn't get into my account on someone else's phone to wipe/trace down my phone. As I believe I'd need 2 factor authentication. Which while mobile I can't do without my phone. I'd have to wait till I got home and a device id previously been logged into.
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Annoyed as all hell, but not fucked at all. The phone locks itself if snatched away. A phone call, and a brief access to android lock later and now the thief has a worthless paperweight. This can happen in a matter of seconds if theft protection works, or a couple of minutes while I find someone who would lend me their phone, faster if I have my smartwatch with me. Carriers on my country also disable IMEIs across all carriers and on the whole territory when phones are reported stolen. Everything on my phone is backed up elsewhere, so I won't actually lose much, and my data would be fairly protected. They could disassemble it and try to decrypt the storage, but good luck with that if they are not law enforcement or doesn't have the fancy forensic toys.
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Depend if it was stolen when i was doing banking or not.
I use différents user with differents password for diffenret type of activities.
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Not a data target, but my wife was pick pocketed in Paris a few months ago. We were boarding a train to the airport and somebody yanked it from her pocket as she boarded with her hands full.
We both have iPhones. Within five minutes while sitting on the train I remotely locked her phone then wiped it. Never saw any fallout that could be attributed to somebody having access to it.
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My phone has GraphineOS so if somebody snaches it than itll just lock and once it locks then the chance of somebody breaking in is extremely slim.
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Yeah, I couldn't get into my account on someone else's phone to wipe/trace down my phone. As I believe I'd need 2 factor authentication. Which while mobile I can't do without my phone. I'd have to wait till I got home and a device id previously been logged into.
For Android, it looks like you can go to https://android.com/lock and use your phone number to lock your phone.
No MFA required. But this has to be enabled on your phone in order for it to work.
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My phone has GraphineOS so if somebody snaches it than itll just lock and once it locks then the chance of somebody breaking in is extremely slim.
Set a tasty duress PIN on it
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Depend if it was stolen when i was doing banking or not.
I use différents user with differents password for diffenret type of activities.
Banking is isolated from my daily usages.I just need to appreciate the different spellings of different in your comment. It almost makes the word perfect in meaning.
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For Android, it looks like you can go to https://android.com/lock and use your phone number to lock your phone.
No MFA required. But this has to be enabled on your phone in order for it to work.
Interesting, that's good to know. I immediately tried to lock the woman's phone next to me by using her number, she didn't have it turned on either. I have an odd feeling someone is going to write a script that locks someone's phone screen at random intervals throughout the day. Schedule it as a task whenever they log into their work computer so you can watch them struggle with it throughout the day then end the task when they lock their screen/log off.
