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The scary thing about this is that, while you may have a good "security hygiene" around your devices, you have no control over others who you socialize with. I

The scary thing about this is that, while you may have a good "security hygiene" around your devices, you have no control over others who you socialize with. It's a bit like ending on Facebook even though you have no account: someone posted a picture of you, you got tagged, and now you exist in FB. All it takes is one person with an infected phone to show up around a table of a private event/conversation and, through no fault of your own, you get recorded. The moral of the story (that I've been trying to follow for a few years now, quite unsuccessfully I must add), is that if you want a private conversation with someone (or a group of people), you need to keep all devices away. On the bright side, it has taught me to be very diplomatic in my discussions with others. My default behavior (when I don't slip) is to assume that whatever I say could become public somehow.

hackwarenews 8y ago
Interesting view! I was actually experimenting for almost 3 weeks in a row to try a strict "diet" where my smartphone would mostly rely on sms/call and all other social apps(including whatsapp) removed and wifi off 90% of the time. Many of my friends sms-ed me after the cutoff day ( i did gave 2 weeks notice on all social media to my friends) asking if I am ok, what happened? Withdrawal syndrome? Well I failed miserably to stick to my goal ( 12 months of phone diet) so after 21 days aaand.. i was back. When running my whatsapp backup ... here it is 100k messages restored. At first I was thinking it should be a whatsapp bug... how i could have 100k msgs haha As they say " Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to consult an attorney , but we already got your whatsapp backup " Anyone tried the low wifi diet?