Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_=22=27Scammers_stole_=c2=a340k_after_EDF_gave_out_m?= =?UTF-8?Q?y_number=22?= Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 08:22:58 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:22:02 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3f5ad65ae4a16fa3676cc7736818ce41"; logging-data="2566406"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+t3LflIV6iXTpJpZvGzbOXSUDGYfqOmOg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lAyx9gjxO+6kMbz/yCBpsBrXXVg= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2877 On 3/5/2025 12:34 AM, Chris wrote: >> So, no, I would not be "royally screwed". I don't live the reckless >> e-lifestyle that you believe is unavoidable. > > That's true. Seeing as you don't use 2FA an attacker only needs access to > your email account to screw you over. > OK. I'm not going to try to explain this to you a 4th time. You clearly can't conceive of any way of doing things other than your cellphone lifestyle, so you don't understand the simple facts I've explained. Good luck. This raises some interesting existential questions. For instance, in 40 years, when there's no human contact except through cellphones, what will we bury when someone dies -- the corpse or the cellphone? Will people buy a Galaxy Mega 117 with their savings, just so they can look good at their own funeral? Will people like me, with a $40 TracFone, have a closed casket, so as not to traumatize my loved ones? Lots of details to work out... On the bright side, at the current rate of screen shrinkage, my funeral will probably be remote viewing only, on a 1/2" screen, so I can probably substitute a picture of a GM117 and no one will know. After all, reality will have gone fully virtual by then, anyway... Now where's my cellphone? I want to install a clapper app, in case it falls between the sofa cushions and I can't find it. :)