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mobile news for april7 could be a potential issue

Hi.
Firstly from redmondpie, we have.
1. lg is shutting down.

LG Confirms It Will No Longer Be Making Smartphones Anymore

From july 31 this year lg will be dieing out.
If you want an lg unit get one now.
Aparently they have good audio etc and will have updates and support for a while but still, lg is switching to components and electric cars, etc.
No more phones though but well there we go its been rumored for ages.

The second and more troubling is this.

uMobix Lets You Keep Track Of Your iPhone And Android With Ease

the article intro blurb states
Keeping tabs on iPhones and Android phones is something that plenty of people have legitimate reasons to want to do. Parents in particular need to know what their children are doing with their devices, not to mention where they’re going. uMobix is an app and service that makes that possible.
uMobix is an app and service that makes that possible.
Once the uMobix client has been installed on the device that needs to be tracked it’s easy to keep tabs on call history, text messages, social media apps that are being used, and more.
You’ll also have access to a GPS location tracker so you’ll always know where the phone has been and when it was there.
Need to know exactly what someone is doing with their device?
uMobix also includes a keylogger so you will always know what your kids are typing.
uMobix captures and records all user keyboard activity, whether into web browsers, messaging, or apps. You can get full insight into all keystrokes initiated.
The uMobix website has a handy demo to show what all of the features do and how they operate, and you can take it for a spin in no time at all by creating an account there and then.
The amount of information you’ll be able to track is impressive and, importantly, it could be hugely important as well.
The article doesn’t go intothe obvious downfalls of this.
1. who is you.
Is it you or is it a hacker.
Sure I could see a reason to use this.
Teen agers, children the list can go on, elderly people other cases like that, people like myself.
But when is to much to much.
1. tracking where you are.
Ok I guess that happens anyway.
2. your text messages, phone calls, what apps you use and what you type online.
I admit it here I am well an absolute bastard online, I wouldn’t trust myself with an laser rifle not to mention that humans can post without thinking.
Its hard to have your digital and real worlds to mesh, its really hard to try to equate real and virtual rules to your real world profile.
You build a profile up of whoever you are posting to and its more than often totally wrong.
I’d have a lagit issue with everyone knowing what I do online, twitter and social networks, I guess if you were a bully or predator maybe but I see no other reason for all this.
Assuming this all complies with the google permitions policies coming into force even then.
Checking emails, knowing where you are and logging your keystrokes.
No human should have that information.
Now I haven’t nore will I be visiting the site in question but assuming all the information is in a secured account, assuming its actually secured with encription, passwords and extra on extra security assuming it works then yeah this would be really good.
Sadly I can find a lot more issues than well good points.
1. Its known hackers will use lagit software to do bad things.
2. all that information is on your phone, assuming its all dialing home somewhere which means everything you do is no longer private or secure.
If this was like this on windows I’d remove all my security software, firewalls and everything, I’d set weak passwords to my bank and I’d post all my information to every hacker out there.
Its just not a good idea to handle this like this.
Next has anyone thought about the battery drains and what we have had to let go.
Covid19 has meant you need to be tracked and the government needs to know where you are.
Granted that information needs to be transfered via randomly generated security access code and that program is held by the government and the tracers need to give you a security code to enter and none know it but still.
We need to be tracked, we allready push so much online, data use and costs, data caps not to mention the battery.
Next, avoiding the first thing made in point 1, there is almost no need to have the information, in other words the same things that would need the information there are also a lot of reasons why not.
The biggest thing is us humans put to much out allready even when we don’t want to.
And automation does more.
I am currently away, and have had to remove printers, tvs, and a host of other extra programs and other things off of my workstation because windows assumes on each network I access I will want access to the devices in question.
Next of course is how secure is the client to access.
One would assume there would be a password but kids are smart.
I know friends with blocking programs set on their systems to track them because of actual good reasons, friends that have managed to hack or get by other means, like watching their parents access them, to remember the passwords turning the program on and off.
Even if we do take all this away, can you imagine what someone could do with every keystroke, everything written, passwords, etc, you may as well not use security software or any passwords at all.
We get so many spam calls and the like.
Can you imagine if you are told by someone they have your umobix password and you need to pay a million to stop your information being uploaded.
And what if it actually is.
Everypassword is compromised.
Your identity stolen.
Your credit cards gone, and you are in jail for multiple crimes you havn’t physically done but all the data is that you have.
The hackers have broken into everything from government to police and have control of all data.
All the lawsuits.
Then what.
Things will have to be made more secure which means legit reasons to get into things will become even harder and round and round it will go till world war 3 happens.
Oh did I mention that that may happen to.
In short its just not a good idea to use this.
Umobix could become the next security nightmare.
The easiest thing to do is not start.
On the other hand, this could actually work.
But no one will want to be tracked and can you imagine all the family and other relationship squobbles that will result in this program.
I have a few extreme religious families that have broken up due to restrictions.
And while a couple got away and won’t be back, one is completely on the give me cash because god told me and the other has gone away and is mentally unstable.
Won’t even talk to her mum, and is on who knows what and wants things.
This is without umobix.
Even if this does go through even without all this is it worth it.
I suspect its not.

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mobile news for april7 could be a potential issue was released on April 5, 2021 at 12:04 pm by crashmaster in general-updates-and-announcements.
Last modified: April 5, 2021.

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