Re:What's the worst that could happen with my phone data?
by ycombinete on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:44PM
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I make a habit of getting friends and family to do this. And, it’s sad to say, but even this doesn’t always elicit the sort of response one would think reasonable
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Re:What's the worst that could happen with my phone data?
by ghostpepper on Saturday December 28, 2019 @12:57PM
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Agreed. The typical response seems to be “what’s the worst that someone could do with that info?”
The NYTimes article attempts to answer that question but I’m not sure how successful it is. The gist seems to be that your data affects others, and you may case later about data that you don’t care about now. Nothing about identity theft, answers to secret questions, etc.
Some people I talk to already get it, that it’s hard to foresee the abuses, but for most people, if it doesn’t end with a hacker raiding their bank account then it’s not really a problem .