I've lost a laptop in an airport shuttle with intimate pics on it once, and got worried sick.
After that life lession, I always made sure to have a veracrypt partition for this stuff. But a separate, offline device is better of course.
Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
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Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#32I'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…
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Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#33Bit of a shame that this will go viral and we’ll never know if Google would have properly handled this on their own. I’d like to think yes but it’s tough to believe the crook’s first attempt at this was also the first time they were caught.
That said, I’m wondering if Google didn’t farm out their repair work to a 3rd party, leading to this situation.
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#34This sort of leaking is now a felony in most US jurisdictions, e.g. Illinois: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn...
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#35This isn’t OP fault but it boggles my mind that people still use google products. How many times do companies like google and Facebook need to show that they don’t have your best interest at heart before you stop using their products? People won’t even buy genetically modified food but yet they have no problem shelling out thousands of dollars to authoritarian, surveillance centric parasites.
Please stop.
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#36How 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.
Microwaves are very good at killing electronics.
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#37The RMA instructions should include using android.com/find to lock and wipe an inoperable device if it ever gets turned on again. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160491?hl=en
This is what apple asks you to do IIRC. They could have just copied that practice instead of having to learn the hard way why ಠ,_｣ಠ
Though, this apparently didn't save apple in at least one recent case: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22522560/apple-repair-mult...
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#38Really should think about just paying another few hundred bucks and just keep the device if it contains nude photos of your wife which you cannot wipe. Don't send that device anywhere... Provided this story is true, I would guess the device might never have reached Google and it might have been stolen on the way there. Don't know what that would mean for liability.
BTW it seems:
> They had access to the Google account which is where the photos were.
like the photos were not on the device, but rather on some Google service, but the phone had remained logged in that account.
It should be possible in such cases to access the Goggle account with another device and change password (I believe, kicking out the broken phone login).
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I feel like removable SD card is a tech person solution but ... kinda doesn't solve it for a lot of folks. Most folks are just going to take nudes and not strategize much and expect them to remain private as part of the typical photo taking and sharing workflow.
I've seen Android now has Safe Folder with extra pin (haven't looked too deep).
But (short) pin probably isn't enough, because that means the key is still on the phone.. I'd want an extra password.
Re: Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not the victim’s fault. But still… it’s only prudent to take precautions.
Sure, but the the need to take precautions is itself the problem.
It's only a problem if you don't live in the real world. The real world is filled with learned behaviors that keep us from expiring quickly like a lazy squirrel on the road.