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From: AJL <noemail@none.com>
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Subject: Re: Samsung account
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:32:41 -0700
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On 3/13/2024 5:29 PM, Andrew wrote:
> AJL wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:19:51 -0700 :

>> I noticed that you conveniently avoided commenting on your
>> un-private online profile (CC, doctor, bank, phone, etc etc.).
>> Understood.

> Your argument is absurd for two reasons that should have been
> obvious. 1. You're comparing the utility of a doctor bank and CC to a
> Samsung app? (that's preposterous)

Nope. I just said your life is already online and available to hacks
if you use those things.

> 2. You're assuming I have a CC on my phone, a banking app on my
> phone, a credit card on my phone, etc.). I do not. Nor on the
> Internet.

Nope. Your phone has nothing to do with it. If you use the above
services, phone or no phone, your life is online and available to hacks.

> If someone wants to hack into that information, they'll have to get
> it directly from my doctor,

My doctors use 3rd party online sites to carry on business where I can
make appointments, see diagnosis, pay co-pays, communicate with their
offices, etc. Unless you're seeing country hicks I'll bet yours do too.

> So I get it that you're butt hurt that I said you aren't thinking.

Using insults instead of facts and logic is a show of poor thinking.

> But comparing the utility of a Samsung Account to a Doctor's Visit is
>  not going to impress me that you're making good decisions. It's just
> not.

No doctor's visits were mentioned. Only doctor's (and other services)
online records

> Give me an argument that makes sense and I'm all ears.

I did.

>> In my case it was mainly a Samsung tablet pop-up stopper with the
>> added advantage of having the Samsung app store made available. As
>> to privacy, AJL has never complained about its loss to me...
>
> OK. I still maintain that if you can find something inside the
> Samsung Account that is worth the loss of privacy, I'd be all ears if
> it made sense (as I asked the same question the first time I got a
> Samsung years ago).

I explained my reason for opening a fake Samsung account last time.
Reread my answer 2 paragraphs above. As to any privacy paranoia, YMMV...