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> Sent my phone to Google for replacement. They fixed the old one and used it to post nudes on my wife's social media and steal money
It doesn't say they pulled wife's nudes from the phone and posted them online, but that they used the old phone to post nudes on the wife's social media...
Or did I miss something?
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Seriously? You're blaming the victim?
It's not blame, it's advice. Advice that is strongly needed, because most people think "they have nothing to hide" until they discover than: - they do - they can't
The “advice” would also apply if you ever logged into your bank or bought anything, if you ever read your email, if you have any secret keys or certificates for authentication of anything, if you ever visited a web site or searched for something you wouldn’t want someone else to see, if you have a list of contacts, if you have any personally identifiable information, if you ever worked on something considered confidential by your employer, etc., etc., etc.
I'm sick of people, so I'm not going to read the inevitable comments that are going to come. Look, face it, some people like taking nude photos of themselves and they like sharing them with their partners. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's not their fault if something like this happens. People should be able to feel secure in the tech that they use, in the companies that they entrust their information…
However, most people wouldn't knowingly leave nude images of their spouse on the car's back seat when getting the car serviced. In many ways this is similar.
Edit: For people who think I'm blaming the victim, I am not. I thought that was clear, since I blamed the thief/poster of the photos! This is in many ways similar to leaving photos in a car. That is not to say that the person with the phone is at fault, but that this also happens in many other cases. If this happened to me (which it has), I'd do something else instead of sending my phone for repair by an unknown person.
I personally didn't reset it when I sent my Pixel 3 to fix the charging port because my Pixel was fully encrypted.
All Pixels are encrypted by default as long as you have any kind of lock method enabled (PIN, password, shape...).
I don't really understand how this person got his files in cleartext and accessible.
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Yeah this is yet another reason to want phones to have removable storage (micro sd card). So private photos can go onto the card instead of built-in storage, and you can remove the card if you have to send in the phone. I don't take nudes but I tend to use my phone as an impromptu photocopier for stuff like bills and receipts, so the photos are full of private info such as account numbers. I worry about that sometime…
How about make it so that the "hidden" photos on a phone require a security code/biometric to access? I've always been shocked that this isn't the case with iOS (don't know Android), it seems so obvious and simple.
I’ve taken my iPhone to a couple of repair shops. They always ask for the pin code and I always refuse and say it’s a work phone. Very much hoping the secure enclave works and my data has not left the phone.
Even when I took my phone into a third party repair place for a new screen they required me to give them my passcode and disable Find My Phone. Seemed super unnecessary.
It was deleted. Here is the OG Text: "Ok so this just happened. Buckle up. About a month ago my wife broke her pixel phone. It couldn't be turned on so we couldn't wipe it. We contact Google and used the device care to get an RMA. Today someone posted nude pictures of my wife and I to her social media accounts. They accessed her Google account and tried to lock us out. They used her PayPal to send someone $5 (a test…
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Where do you see blame in this comment? I see advice so others can learn from this unfortunate incident. Hell, she doesn't even use the phrase "should have". I really wish the masses had never heard the term "victim blaming". 95% of the time i see it used, it's nonsensical pearl-clutching insisting that no one can ever take steps to protect themselves.
The blame is pervasive through the entire comment. If you can't see that, you need to reboot, install updates, and look again. It was a very brief comment and its ENTIRE CONTENT was a criticism of the victim's conduct and a suggestion about how the victim should alter said conduct (and sacrifice a lot of money) to avoid Bad Things, rather than the right fucking answer here, which is to put everyone involved with this…
The comment is completely consistent with the interpretation: "it's unintuitive and thus understandable that the victims didn't do this, but one should eat the cost of devices with unremovable sensitive data instead of sending it anywhere".
> If you can't see that, you need to reboot, install updates, and look again
I think I'm good with the version I'm running. Apparently it allows me to have enough going on in my life that I don't have the desperate impulse to get a dose of morning outrage from interpreting everything in the least charitable light.
How do you disable your old phones especially those those that do not work (due to shattered screen mostly) before giving them up for recycling or buyback? I am always worried someone will fix and misuse my old phone.
I wonder if there is a way to connect to it through usb in order to wipe it.
Once in fastboot mode, you can connect to pc or another android device to boot to recovery and factory reset/wipe data. It won't be any three letter agency safe, but most data should be lost for any common tech person.
I'm sick of people, so I'm not going to read the inevitable comments that are going to come. Look, face it, some people like taking nude photos of themselves and they like sharing them with their partners. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's not their fault if something like this happens. People should be able to feel secure in the tech that they use, in the companies that they entrust their information…
Of course the fault lies with the person who posted the images online. That person also violated state and federal laws. There is no doubt about that. However, most people wouldn't knowingly leave nude images of their spouse on the car's back seat when getting the car serviced. In many ways this is similar. Edit: For people who think I'm blaming the victim, I am not. I thought that was clear, since I blamed the thief…
Granted, this may be the best reason I've heard yet for why removing the option to have an SD card is bad...