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I never unlock my phone if anyone is nearby. Yes, I look around first before unlocking.
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I'm so done.
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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.
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If they somehow managed to get it to not auto lock after 60 sec then I'd have to change passwords on 3 different emails.
Worst thing they would have is my browser history.
They can't transfer any money without my fingerprint or password to the app.
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I run my own NAS and Nextcloud server. Most of the data on my phone is synced there.
So I am somewhat prepared for the loss of my phone, but not really for the possibility of someone else using it (accounts etc).
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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]Hardware is good, but why not have both?
Imei Blacklisting makes them not very valuable anyways. Data worth a lot more.
Btw someone got a fradulent copy of my mother's ID somehow. Like not a "fake id", an actual real government issued ID, but fraudulently obtained mailed to some random address. They started trying to access money in banks, then tried sim swapping [edit: The sim swapping actually worked. Calls from my mother's phone stopped working and other lines in the same family plan got a notification, so my parents went to the phone company and removed my mother's name from the account and replaced the sim. As for the bank accounts, they closed and reopened the accounts with new account numbers and they had a note in there to double check the picture (which is still of my mother's) and address on there (which the fradulent ID had a different address). They never managed to take any money. But it wasted a lot of time.]
So like, its a thing that happens. People think "identity theft won't happen to me, I'm not important enough", then someone steals your identity. These things never gets investigated. They said "we'll investigate" but like a year later, not a word from those "investigators".Only if you steal from the rich do any investigation gets done. They don't care about the average person.
TLDR: Protect your data. Identity theft is actually common.
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They would have to turn on airplane mode quick while they were running because as soon as it has data, I'd have their location and my phone would've already been marked lost / stolen by my watch and queued for factory reset.
While in airplane mode there really wouldn't be much they could do. Anything useful is locked by Face ID. They could see my calendar and my most boring emails. They would have no passwords.
The phone itself would be useless as a phone as it couldn't be used in another carrier.
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They would have to turn on airplane mode quick while they were running because as soon as it has data, I'd have their location and my phone would've already been marked lost / stolen by my watch and queued for factory reset.
While in airplane mode there really wouldn't be much they could do. Anything useful is locked by Face ID. They could see my calendar and my most boring emails. They would have no passwords.
The phone itself would be useless as a phone as it couldn't be used in another carrier.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean, that's kinda the point of this question: How quickly can you issue a wipe command to your phone?
If you only have one phone no backup phones, now quickly can you access a internet device to issue a wipe command? And will you even remember the google/apple account password quickly enough in such a stressful moment?
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I run my own NAS and Nextcloud server. Most of the data on my phone is synced there.
So I am somewhat prepared for the loss of my phone, but not really for the possibility of someone else using it (accounts etc).
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.
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Little macro running on my phone, that as soon as my smartwatch gets out of range, it locks the screen. Add the ability to format via wasted remotely, and we are set. The only way to disable internet/ actvate airplane mode is to insert the password if the screen is locked. Also I've never checked, but if graphene has a dead man's switch, not even poweing off would keep the data intact.
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Little macro running on my phone, that as soon as my smartwatch gets out of range, it locks the screen. Add the ability to format via wasted remotely, and we are set. The only way to disable internet/ actvate airplane mode is to insert the password if the screen is locked. Also I've never checked, but if graphene has a dead man's switch, not even poweing off would keep the data intact.
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?
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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.
Banking is isolated from my daily usages.
