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On 05/03/2025 1:43, Newyana2 wrote:
> On 3/4/2025 4:09 PM, Chris wrote:
> 
>>
>> If someone has your emails and your mobile phone number you are royally
>> screwed. Yes, even you.
>>
> 
>   I'm repeatedly struck by how much cellphone addicts can't
> imagine any other way to live. My cellphone has no address book,
> no apps to speak of, no passwords. I keep it in case I need to
> make a phone call away from home. If someone steals it then
> I'd just buy another $40 TracFone amnd another $20 card to
> get me 3 months usage. No big loss.
> 
 >    My emails are not sitting on a server somewhere. I download> them 
and then delete them from the server. I don't use either for
> banking, shopping, transmitting credit card numbers, etc.

That is what Oliver North thought happened....

> 
>   So, no, I would not be "royally screwed". I don't live the reckless
> e-lifestyle that you believe is unavoidable.

In the UK its pretty much unavoidable. Bank branches are closing, so for 
example if you live on parts of the Yorkshire Dales you nearest branch 
might be a 45 minute drive away down country lanes....

https://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/23289735.fury-closure-bedale-leyburn-barclays-branches/

....  many government tasks have to be done on-line. Watching a TV 
program last night, on claiming some pension credits you need to do it 
on-line. What if you have no on-line access some one asked, the answer, 
go to the library or ask a friend...

Now I know to do these things in the UK on-line requires a mobile linked 
to an e-mail account, so lose your mobile and buy a new one you are 
screwed...

Dave