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Someone opened my phone (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back.

I'm a bit confused how this even happened. When I got the phone back, they were going through my contacts. I checked app usage stats and they went through a banking app (not missing money), maps, signal, etc.

Is there a way to figure out how they even unlocked my phone?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A smartphone has better protection and actual disk encryption than probably 90% of all Computers or Laptops since its enabled by default.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, it isn't, independent of that it's easier to get lost or robbed.

https://www.techradar.com/news/8-reasons-why-smartphones-are-privacy-nightmare

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No, it isn't, independent of that it's easier to get lost or robbed.

https://www.techradar.com/news/8-reasons-why-smartphones-are-privacy-nightmare

Thats not what i said.

Modern Smartphones offer a much better protection against data extraction than regular Computers/Laptops.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The own OS and preinstalled app in a Mobile are extracting your data. This you can only avoid to root it to be able to desinstalar them, but this cause that you must made the security updates by yourself, in rooted phones it isn't automatic. Than use only apps from F-Droid and not from the Store, install an paid AV and use VPN. Only in this way it is somewhat more secure. Better if you use some Linux Mobile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The own OS and preinstalled app in a Mobile are extracting your data. This you can only avoid to root it to be able to desinstalar them, but this cause that you must made the security updates by yourself, in rooted phones it isn't automatic. Than use only apps from F-Droid and not from the Store, install an paid AV and use VPN. Only in this way it is somewhat more secure. Better if you use some Linux Mobile.

How is this different from Windows?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but how often do you take your desktop on a walk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I wrote Laptop also. Pls do not try to misdirect.