Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS

On 2024-07-15 06:03, Andrew wrote:

Arno Welzel wrote on Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:25:21 +0200 :
 

You live in abject fear of every person around you, whether that's your
wife, your kids, your own mom, your friends and neighbors; I don't.

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It also has nothing to do with "fear". Certain companies *REQUIRE* that
you protect your data, otherwise you *MUST* *NOT* work for them since
you show clear ignorance of best practices to protect data.

 Hi Arno,
 There is a lot to this story where I brought up the slums and being in
abject fear of your own wife & kids & neighbors as a philosophical point.
 If you set up a phone properly, you do not need to lock that phone down.
It's only people who don't understand computers who lock personal phones.

Setting up a phone to lock IS setting it up properly.
Anyone can lose a phone or have it stolen.

 We're going to have to understand that I had already stated that I wasn't
talking about a corporate device but about a typical personal use device.
 Also, we have to understand Carlos and others were completely ignorant that
an Android phone works perfectly fine without any login/password.

Unless you want to send and receive messages of some kind.

 It turns out that Carlos has absolutely no understanding of how phones work
in that there is no Internet server login/password required for texting
despite the fact he repeatedly insisted Internet is required for texting.

"no Internet server login/password" is not the same as "no login".

 It's not.
Android texting works fine without any connection to the Internet.

But still requires authentication. i.e. a login.

 Carlos was unaware of that fact; and Carlos appears to still be unaware.
There's nothing more I can do as he insists login/passwords are required.
 They're not.
But there's more to the story as this concept is a philosophical one.
 It's about how to properly set up your phone for personal privacy.
 Hence, we have to understand that most people don't know how to set up a
cellphone, so *those people* will always need to add biometric gimmicks.
 We also have to understand that MARKETING wants you to create accounts left
and right, containing your personal data, which is a key failing of most
people because they have automatic logins to things like email and banks.
 We have to understand that a well set up device has no personal data
accessible to anyone - even the purse snatcher who lives in your house.
 We have to understand that if you set up your phone properly, then there's
nothing you lose if/when it's stolen other than the physical phone itself.
 And your texting will work fine whether or not you have Internet accounts.