Questions tagged [phone]
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are not in the same vicinity of each other to be heard directly.
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How to make SMS-based 2FA safer?
This is a problem that many of us face: A surprising number of financial institutions' websites offer additional authentication only via SMS and/or phone call. But I will refer to my situation ...
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Am I being tracked or something? [closed]
A guy asked to borrow my phone to make a call. Instead of giving him my phone, I asked what the number was, put it on speaker and made the call. Someone answered but barely talked, she sounded maybe ...
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Tracking Apps Spyware [closed]
Looking on how to best advise someone who continues to have phone hacking issues. She changes devices, carriers nothing stops it. Local law enforcement have been no help. Very detailed personnel ...
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Apple Mail versus GMail app content security
I am trying to determine if there is a benefit to using the GMail app over the built in iOS one when it comes to security. I know that both store data locally on the phone, but the question is whether ...
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Can an earpiece transfer virus from one phone to another? [duplicate]
I gave a friend my earpiece and her phone had audio issues prior to that, I took it back and connected it to my phone and ever since I did, my audio stopped working. Now if I try to do anything that ...
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Why does Amazon make you enter specified digits upon calling their customer service switchboard?
If one calls the Amazon customer services number, a robotic voice asks one to enter three numbers. Along the lines of “to be connected to a customer service associate, please press [XYZ]” (where [xyz] ...
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Does Signal store mobile phone numbers server-side in plain text?
Does Signal (the company) keep or ever have mobile phone numbers in plaintext (on any form of server-side storage)?
I searched the web and couldn't find an official statement/documentation/answer/code/...
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How to deal with unused smart phones safely [duplicate]
I have several old smart mobile phones that are not going to be used anymore, most of them have run out of battery and I cant remember whether I have any sensitive data on them. How should I deal with ...
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Is it possible to trace a virtual number back to its service provider? [duplicate]
If a virtual number is only used to send and recieve messages, is it possible for somebody who know the number to trace it back to its service provider and somehow seize the number? (perhaps buying ...
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Is Android SOS being used as privilege escalation or settings bypass?
I have been getting random SOS countdowns triggered on my phone. Every time this happens, a pop-up appears telling me that unknown numbers have been temporarily unblocked. The most recent instance was ...
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Can a bad guy ever get access to my gmail account using ONLY the 2fa app or ONLY the recovery phone (plus username)?
Let's say X is a malicious person.
Let's say I have a gmail account with a recovery phone and with 2fa
enabled. Let's say X knows the username but not the password. X doesn't have any other ...
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Is a mobile phone number in itself an information that can be utilized by hackers etc? [duplicate]
I recently installed Tinder, and I saw that the app warns about sharing your phone number to avoid being hacked.
I also noticed certain obviously fake profiles pressing for getting a phone number or ...
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Do car Bluetooth FM transmitters allow others to eavesdrop on the hands-free phone calls that I make?
My car's entertainment system is only able to play audio CDs and receive AM/FM radio. I am thinking of getting a Bluetooth FM transmitter so that I could use my car's speakers to play my smartphone's ...
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Prevent device from seeing WiFi networks for geolocation
This is something I was wondering while trying to improve my privacy.
Mobile devices tend to use geolocation based on WiFi networks they find available (thanks to evil Google...).
One could use ...
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Can my infected phone’s hotspot infect my outdated computer?
Knowing that anything is possible for the many ways a hacker can break into a system, is it also possible that if I have an infected phone acting as a hotspot, my outdated computer could get infected ...
