Sister's Bag Stolen in Tesco Tonight.

[Roverlike]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

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The use of things like birth dates, house numbers and age etc. are often advised against but I think that is more secure than carrying a written pin reminder with a card.

I might seems so, but do not forget that if whole bag is stolen, or valet, then most probably thief will have info of the birthdate, house address or age as well, and that will be one of the first thing he will try to use as PIN. ID cards usualy have that info, and you carry IDs with you.

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Roverlike

I might seems so, but do not forget that if whole bag is stolen, or valet, then most probably thief will have info of the birthdate, house address or age as well, and that will be one of the first thing he will try to use as PIN. ID cards usualy have that info, and you carry IDs with you.

An easy way is to fudge an easy to remember date add (or subtract) 1111 to the date. The 1111 can be replaced with 2222 or 1234 or 4321, endless possibilities to fudge an easy to remember number.


Such would make it easy to remember the number, but make it far more difficult for a thief. They would have to try the 9,999 different possible pin numbers, unless they knew the method you used to fudge it.

[Robti]

does android not have a function of wiping the data remotely or can she not get into her google account and retrieve data, sorry iPhone here and only suggesting things

[Roverlike]

Originally Posted by Robti

does android not have a function of wiping the data remotely or can she not get into her google account and retrieve data, sorry iPhone here and only suggesting things

Yes, Android have possibility to remotly wipe the data, but it needs to be activated as a security feature from the first place, which most of the people does not do. In order to download data from Google account then you suppose to put all pictures and other personal stuff to Google and not on SD card, which is not some people like to do, espacialy in these days when privacy is "on sale" if not taken good care of.

[Robti]

Originally Posted by Roverlike

Yes, Android have possibility to remotly wipe the data, but it needs to be activated as a security feature from the first place, which most of the people does not do. In order to download data from Google account then you suppose to put all pictures and other personal stuff to Google and not on SD card, which is not some people like to do, espacialy in these days when privacy is "on sale" if not taken good care of.

thanks for setting me straight and good to know for the future

[WillyHeckaslike]

"Any blocked/no service phones for sale?"

I've been watching social media (together with friends and family lol) for anything of interest re this theft and the advert quoted above recently came to light. I'm not very savvy about mobile phones so the advert raises the question in my mind as to how a mobile phone could legitimately meet the requirements of such an advert. Anyone got any ideas?

[COLVERT]

Originally Posted by WillyHeckaslike

"Any blocked/no service phones for sale?"

I've been watching social media (together with friends and family lol) for anything of interest re this theft and the advert quoted above recently came to light. I'm not very savvy about mobile phones so the advert raises the question in my mind as to how a mobile phone could legitimately meet the requirements of such an advert. Anyone got any ideas?

Probably a post from a clever little Hacker who has found a cunning way to bring these phones back to life.----