Do Faraday Bags Really Work?

[Ella Spell]

Do people put them on laptops in their homes?

 

[Ella Spell]

I keep location off on all my stuff.

 

[Outdated]

Identity theft is the biggest worry these days, if they get enough information they can start setting up credit accounts and taking out loans in your name.

 

[Forest Cat]

I keep location off on all my stuff.

Me too but I don't trust it. It was proven years ago that for example Google was doing things they claimed they never did. Like tracking people and devices. Who knows what is going on that we don't know about. Turning something off on a phone isn't a guarantee these days I think.

 

[Ella Spell]

Then why buy a phone?

Mine is only for emergencies when I’m driving. I keep it shut off with location off.

It also has a VPN.

I just checked and my last phone call made on it was in June.

I don’t understand why people put so much stuff on them, but then worry they have too much stuff on them and pay more money to hide that stuff.

I bet the bag makers are connected to Google anyway.

 

[Judge]

Then why buy a phone?

Most consumers absolutely lust for an ever-increasing sense of convenience.

Which many end up paying for in ways they never saw coming.

 

[Ella Spell]

I’ve never bought a phone.

I get my daughter’s hand-me-downs.

I had her iPhone 4 until about three years ago then graduated to her 8.

I prefer my landline.

 

[Ella Spell]

Identity theft is the biggest worry these days, if they get enough information they can start setting up credit accounts and taking out loans in your name.

I had identity theft before I even owned a phone. It was domestic abuse. Someone transferred all my assets including my house into their name.

No technology needed.

 

[Outdated]

Most consumers absolutely lust for an ever-increasing sense of convenience.

That's the main driver of it all, I reckon.

PayPal is a concept I just rejected right from the start, not because I believe there's any issues with the company but simply because I didn't like the idea of someone else minding my credit card number for me. I'm quite capable of typing it in myself thank you very much.

Yesterday I got an email from PayPal telling me that I needed to login and update my account details. To me that's pretty obviously a scam as I don't have a paypal account but I clicked on the links anyway just to see where it would take me. It looked very much like a real paypal site.

 

[Outdated]

I had identity theft before I even owned a phone. It was domestic abuse. Someone transferred all my assets including my house into their name.

I recently had a scare and had to get cards reissued with new numbers and had to put a hold on credit checks in my name. You can't be too careful these days.

 

[Ella Spell]

I type my own phone numbers too.

I don’t keep contact lists.

I don’t phone many people and I know their numbers by memory.

Any I don’t know are in my address book: Yes, my physical address book.

I don’t do SM either.

What would they find if they followed me? Gee … maybe I drove to my mum’s house or the vet. It’s not like I do anything interesting to get all paranoid about.

 

[Ella Spell]

I recently had a scare and had to get cards reissued with new numbers and had to put a hold on credit checks in my name. You can't be too careful these days.

I do that about once a year just to be safe.

 

[Ella Spell]

There was actually a nationwide data breach at the medical lab company where we do blood labs and EKG tests, because our health insurance cards link to our name and address (and medical info, if anyone wants that.)

We are all automatically in a class action and will be paid when it goes to trial.

 

[Ella Spell]

I get about ten notices per day that my Norton subscription is expiring and I’m in grave danger. I’ve never used Norton.

Is it safe to open them and click unsubscribe even though I never subscribed?

I just keep deleting them.

 

[Outdated]

Is it safe to open them and click unsubscribe even though I never subscribed?

Never click on this. It confirms that the email address is valid and will not stop the messages coming through.

If you use gmail just start dragging and dropping them in the spam folder instead of deleting them. Google will learn and start putting there for you.

 

[Ella Spell]

Thanks.

 

[Ella Spell]

I don’t know how to drag email.

Can I just checkmark them and put them in Spam?

 

[Judge]

Is it safe to open them and click unsubscribe even though I never subscribed?

If it's not a vendor you already and officially deal with, I'd never click on something like that.

 

[Outdated]

You can do this with google's own emails that they keep sending you too, they send me security alerts all the time because I run a secure system and they can't verify that I'm really me.

 

[Ella Spell]

If it's not a vendor you already and officially deal with, I'd never click on something like that.

Thanks. I don’t.