Thread: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2018-07-13 , 20:09
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#2669
Originally Posted by imaginaryenemy View Post
I don't know what you guys have on your phone, but my reason for locking my device is not because I think someone will access my nuclear launch codes, but because I don't want my son to play on my phone. I feel fairly confidant that he won't be molding any artificial fingers any time soon.
What is there in phones, hmm?
  • PKI keys to everything from jenkins servers to github accounts and between
  • email correspondance, both professional and private
  • sms/mms correspondance, both professional and private
  • contact details for famous and infamous people
  • compromising pictures that could get you blackmailed
  • compromising pictures used for blackmail
  • cryptocurrencies
  • passwords for ebay, paypal, amex, visa, various banks, national lottery, car rental companies, airline accounts, etc...
  • personal documentation, medical information, electronic medicine receipts
  • GPS traces and tracks, coordinates for caches of drugs and precious metals

Getting access to someone's phone is the best way to hack that person, to totally steal identity.
Even if there is no special information in the device itself; just about every online account you have has 2-factor-auth based on your phone number. And the email client in the phone most probably already remembers your mail password... Need I spell it out for you?
 

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