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To: Twotone

6: Just don’t put any financial info on your cell phone.

The only thing saved on my phone is my contact list, no saved passwords or credit card info. I do all that stuff at home on my PC which is more secure.


6 posted on 12/02/2023 5:47:23 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: usurper

Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Home PCs are generally easier to break into, they’re just behind ISPs with at least a basic level of security. One wrong software install or malvertisement and your entire home network becomes an involuntary member of a botnet.


8 posted on 12/02/2023 5:51:03 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: usurper

Exactly.

I would also add to be VERY WARY of ‘apps’.


11 posted on 12/02/2023 6:32:38 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: usurper

If someone does banking online, one person said tO use an old computer, cheap one, uo to date software- a laptop or whatever, and only connect to the banking sitE and disconnect computer when done, and use other computers for every day use online.


14 posted on 12/02/2023 7:10:10 AM PST by Bob434
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