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Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by Symbiote »

ianmurrays wrote: post #229
z3t4 wrote: post #39

In Sweden where I live you need to use the digital national ID whenever you make a credit card transaction via some app, for example when buying a bus ticket, so you need to have it with you at all times. But with the ID you can also take a quick loan and transfer all the money to a foreign bank basically ruining your life as the bank take no responsibility if the ID is used during the transaction.

Does the app not require authentication? At least MitID in Denmark requires a 6-digit PIN at the very minimum, or biometrics optionally.

MitID (at least as I have it on Android) requires either biometrics or a PIN.

To help slightly I've set my username to a long string of random digits.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

Symbiote wrote: post #241
ianmurrays wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the app not require authentication? At least MitID in Denmark requires a 6-digit PIN at the very minimum, or biometrics optionally.

MitID (at least as I have it on Android) requires either biometrics or a PIN. To help slightly I've set my username to a long string of random digits.

This may lead to unintended consequences.

Passwords are "protected content" that may be hidden in a web form, but usernames are not. Your username won't be routinely hidden by any ordinary password manager.

You may have difficulty when the need arises to share a long string of random digits with another human, or in writing. This may not ordinarily be a thing if more LLMs and chatbots are doing customer service, but if it's a government service, one day we find ourselves at a field office speaking with a civil servant at a window that is armored with Plexiglas, and nobody has a pen to write with, or scratch paper.

One of my colleagues said he was so clever that all his "security question" answers were random hex strings. So I imitated him, and it was very easy with the KeePassXC password generator parameters to generate a hex string of 32 characters, and so "my first grade teacher" was 0xf7a83392b12b1029ac3be7e029acbe7e; my "favorite color" was 0xa83392ac3be7e029acbe7f7a83392b17, etc.

This turned comical because security questions are particularly designed to be asked and answered in human conversations. Over the phone, the pharmacy CSR was not amused, and I lost a few accounts thanks to this ultra-paranoiac attitude and activity.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by ChrisRR »

branon wrote: post #38

I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness tracker with onboard GPS. It syncs to the phone later, when I return, which then uploads workout data to the vendor's cloud. I look at the results on my PC with a web browser, phone is a passive middleman and is never touched directly for fitnes…

A phone is heavy while running?

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by master-lincoln »

user_7832 wrote: post #221
anabab wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an option in Google maps

It's also an amazing option on the Google app on the iPad . Yeah sure, let me just shake my freaking massive tablet when I have feedback. What next, shake your 16" MacBook every time you find a bug? You'll have a better chance of quashing a physical bug than a digital bug at that point.

it is one way to enter the feedback screen, not the only way

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by master-lincoln »

ChrisRR wrote: post #244
branon wrote: post #38

I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness tracker with onboard GPS. It syncs to the phone later, when I return, which then uploads workout data to the vendor's cloud. I look at the results on my PC with a web browser, phone is a passive middleman and is never touched directly for fitnes…

A phone is heavy while running?

It's also heavy before running

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by inigyou »

arjie wrote: post #102
jazzyjackson wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can’t you disable ferries same as toll roads?

It’s not on the quick select pills so it’s not obvious but yes you can https://youtube.com/shorts/SA72d9VfsPg?is=F6zKWQNOkokN31F3 As for your other question, it looks like the guy was responding to an implied “I can’t turn off tolls as a hack bypass ferries because the bridge also requires a toll”. I’d speculate that it wasn’t obvious there’s a ferry-specific filter because the other filters show up as pills.

Link without tracking: https://youtube.com/shorts/SA72d9VfsPg

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by eternauta3k »

ChrisRR wrote: post #244
branon wrote: post #38

I refuse to go running with a phone - too heavy, and too distracting, running outside is one of the few places I _escape_ the phone for a bit. So I made sure to get a fitness tracker with onboard GPS. It syncs to the phone later, when I return, which then uploads workout data to the vendor's cloud. I look at the results on my PC with a web browser, phone is a passive middleman and is never touched directly for fitnes…

A phone is heavy while running?

He might be running at relativistic speeds

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

ahtihn wrote: post #99
Reason077 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ”Adding “running” to the list of things that Google engineers apparently don’t do.” Not with a phone, no. Why would you take your phone with you when you run? It’s bulky and annoying. If you really need to be reachable or to be able to pay for something in emergencies, that’s what smart watches are for.

> Why would you take your phone with you when you run? So you can listen to music? And most people don't have a smart watch. It's fairly common to see people running with a phone strapped to their arm.

I, for one, endeavor to retain situational awareness even while on foot.

The author of this article apparently demands to run around with an unlocked phone. I have the same "Theft Protection" enabled and the only thing it purports to do is lock the screen. So I may never trigger it, because if I'm walking, or running, or bicycling, the screen is locked!!

If I cram earbuds into my ears and drown out the world, then I am functionally deaf; I cannot hear tires squealing, or honking horns, or victims screaming. I shan't go on about how my bone-conduction technology muddles up both music and the real world sounds.

If I'm checking my phone while I'm in motion on a sidewalk, I'm functionally wearing blinders, and not the good kinds like they put on carriage-horses. Especially at night when my glowing screen is brighter than the Full Moon! If my face is in my screen, then my mind is also not in meatspace, but my imagination is in Lothlórien, or Cair Paravel, or 40 Eridani in the 23rd century.

My mind and five senses need to be in the present and need to be in meatspace, or my feet don't belong in traffic.

Re: My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

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Post by artisinal »

jerlam wrote: post #10

I found this doozy from someone trying to test out the feature: > After looking over Google’s advice, my key takeaway was that thieves are in much better shape than me, and run both longer and faster than this nerdy writer has in more than two decades. https://www.androidauthority.com/android-theft-detection-loc... Personally, the main situation I'm concerned about is on a bus or train, where someone grabs your phone…

Pull the emergency handle and get your phone back. If you live in South America you might even be allowed to use lethal force doing so.
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