Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Frank Slootweg Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Samsung account Date: 14 Mar 2024 15:15:08 GMT Organization: NOYB Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <86il1qmd9v.fsf@example.com> <86y1allws2.fsf@example.com> <86ttl9luim.fsf@example.com> X-Trace: individual.net sVBAp0bEFOnEoogm/6crtg0uMbfeuXUfAnIDcBn9TTuVjK3XXs X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:EEfZdNTXjp5cTCcP4FIuoAGXD8A= sha256:6B+kryJDMM0a1zcHNfo+R43HYQq56OTKCY4nFUzNG6I= User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW/2.8.0(0.309/5/3) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 Bytes: 2587 Andrew wrote: > AJL wrote on Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:19:51 -0700 : > > >> I've heard many people say that privacy is too hard for them, so I believe > >> that you gave up long ago > > > > Gave up? No. I do conceal my ID when possible and/or necessary. And 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) > 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. > > If someone wants to hack into that information, they'll have to get it > directly from my doctor, my bank and my credit card company. Well, some of your fellow paranoids claim that - in the US - such organizations are also selling your 'personal'/'private' [1] data. Face it, as AJL hints at, that information is just on a *different* server - than Samsung's, Google's, etc. ad infinitum - over which you *also* have *absolutely no* control. Sweet dreams! [1] Scare quotes, because - contrary to popular FUD, urban legend, hearsay, etc. - the big tech companies have very little *actual* personal/private data.