Meh, if they lock you out after X attempts, then 6 digits is fine. Hell, even 4 digits is fine if they have a lockout-policy.

Do they have a limit on attempts?

Impossible.

I tried that once and my cat just bit the leash and harness. And rolled on the floor like a kid with a temper tantrum.

But I carry my cat in a cat-backpack and traveled around the neighborhood, it was fun, not sure if my cat was enjoying it tho.

My bank does this 💀

https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/chase-bank/

A pet peeve of mine is when I drop my phone 2 feet from the floor and the battery pops out.

I’d rather see a different mechanism where you trigger a battery removal by inserting a sim tool pin, just like how the sim cards are removed. This way, we can preserve IP ratings.

The “staring outside the window at the birds looking as if you have an existential crisis” Cat

I mean, if my cat had more braincells, her face would look like she was staring at the birds all the time (a catistential crisis)

Damn, I wish I was just a cat, being a human is so much sadness

Why do these phones still have USB 2.0?

Also, wtf is the “AI Button” jesus christ is that at least re-programmable?

Our research shows that phone scammers often try to trick people into performing specific actions to initiate a scam, like changing default device security settings or granting elevated permissions to an app. These actions can result in spying, fraud, and other abuse by giving an attacker deeper access to your device and data. To combat phone scammers, we’re working to block specific actions and warn you of these sophisticated attempts. This happens completely on device and is applied only with conversations with non-contacts.

Android’s new in-call protections1 provide an additional layer of defense, preventing you from taking risky security actions during a call like:

• Disabling Google Play Protect, Android’s built-in security protection, that is on by default and continuously scans for malicious app behavior, no matter the download source.
• Sideloading an app for the first time from a web browser, messaging app or other source – which may not have been vetted for security and privacy by Google.
• Granting accessibility permissions, which can give a newly downloaded malicious app access to gain control over the user’s device and steal sensitive/private data, like banking information.

Bruh, if you are falling for simple stuff like a stanger telling you to chance settings over a phone call, you’re cooked.

No “protection” can save you.

That’s good, until you have family members that need to contact you for something.

And worse case scenario, you won’t be there for a loved one and make important medical decisions as their next-of-kin.

That’s the whole point of a phone, to act as a communications device.

I think the only solutions to this is bringing back the pagers. With the Standard Operating Procedure be having airplane mode on all the time, with a receive-only device that will alert you if someone want to contact you.

Google is not the only thing you have to worry about. Your phone carrier can also have erroneous location data.

I read this more of a cops being shitty story.

If you don’t have location turned off and all cell radios off all the time, you are also at risk.

Misinformation.

FRP is triggered by factory reset through any method that’s not from the settings menu (eg: Recovery Menu).

It doesn’t require “spyware” to work.

Google’s spyware issue is a whole separate topic from FRP.

If they wanted to, the developers of Graphene OS could design a FRP system that has nothing to do with Google at all.

I actually like the idea of anti-theft FRP, but only if its a local-based instead of cloud based.

You know, like a BIOS/UEFI lock on a computer, but apply it to all the components instead of motherboard only, and get rid of the “remove battery to reset password” bypass, and its a functional anti-theft system.

I imagine its probably much easier to acomplish this on a intergrated device with CPU, Storage, RAM, all on one chip (SoC) like on a phone than with computers.

Unfortunately, corporations always just love to interject and add their “cloud” nonsense to it.

Doesn’t do much.

Only your carrier would honor it, maybe even all carriers in your country, but they’ll ship it off to some other country and the phone would still work (might be missing a few bands, but still fuctional).

The only way for it to actually deter theft is for the entire device to essentially become a brick unless unlocked.

The idea itself is a good thing. The only bad thing about FRP is that it’s online-based instead of a local-lock.

I wish I was high on potenuse catnip

My cat will just refuse to eat any human food if you attempt to feed her that. Not even fish.

Average pizza when you are poor 🙃

(It taste so bad lol, literally PTSD from the sight of that pizza)

Somebody needs to fix the megathread

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

The Microsoft edge browser has a read to me mode

Text to speech vs an actual human professional reading it is like night and day.

audiobookbay[dot]is right on the megathread/wiki

I refreshed Tor circuit 3 times, same result.

Using ProtonVPN (paid) have the same result.

I’m not gonna attempt it on my real IP for obvious reasons.

I think its fine either way, it’s not like a .mp3 file has a high malware threat. (But I definitely would not run any .exe .apks from an unsecured connection tho.)

I’ll say ProtonVPN (despite the CEO controversy)

If you ever want to watch Youtube videos, Mullvad and IVPN is gonna trigger websites like Youtube, Reddit, sometimes even Google search engine, to block you or make you sign in.

Mullvad and IVPN has too few servers, its much more likely for a server to get blocked.

ProtonVPN has like 11,000 servers, so even if it doesn’t work on the first server, clear browsing data, close browser, and pick another server. Usually you’ll find a working one within like 3 tries. Don’t let it auto pick the closest one, just randomly scroll and click on a server.

Meh, its probably some issue with the carrier assigning IP addresses.

I occasionally get search results in Spanish and it shows my location as in Mexico, even though I’m closer to the Canadian border. And do not speak Spanish, am not Hispanic, and do not have Spanish in my phone settings.

IP address shows it as near where I live. Not sure what the problem is.

I use a VPN with only like Fennec and a few apps selected to go through the Wireguard tunnel, everything else use a separate Wireguard tunnel. Neither’s exit server is in Mexico.

Must be a bug 🤷‍♂️