Hello Russel, and others, On 3/29/20, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 8:37:23 PM AEDT Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote:
There have been cases of the phone being "ported" to a different mobile service provider, and the phone being stripped of personal data. It may be not common, but it is a real risk. There are also
There are many rumors about this. If you have a recent phone that has an SSL implementation without flaws (IE not Android 2.3 or something) then a hostile intermediary can't fake the Play Store and push apps on you. If you have Android 2.3 and aren't important in some way (why would someone who meets any definition of "important" be using Android 2.3?) then hostile parties probably won't try to attack you, they will go for the wealthier 99% of the market.
This is not the Android, or app store, but someone spoofing your identity to contact a phone connection provider, and have your number moved to someone else, like between Optus and Vodaphone, or Optus and Telstra. Having done so, they can get access to everything on the phone, and bank accounts have been stripped. This is why I want the sim and device locked to the one network, until I present in person with sufficient ID to then choose to migrate. I do not like any of them, and for privatising Telstra, I wish John Howard and Richard Alston long lives, a thousand years, with spinal cancer and no pain remission. I want to see a civil society rebuilt, and I see Linux and other open source software as a critical component instead of chasing mammon. Regards, Mark Trickett