Phone hack

Nope - I did enjoy life as a computer programmer, but a lot of the security flaws are new - though based on fairly simple concepts.
 
The best advice I give folks is to pay attention, and if you encounter something you are not sure about - don't click on the scary message - look it up on a different computer - reboot without calling the phone number that is threatening you with some blue screen of death - READ each install screen prior to clicking on Next.  If you don't know who the email is from, don't trust it.  And, NO banks EVER will ask you to click on a link to validate any information.  ALWAYS type in your bank's web site info yourself, or store the site name as a bookmark/favorite, and I NEVER store passwords anywhere but in my head.
 
MILLIONS of people fall for really obvious scams, all the time, simply because they don't pay attention.
 
Bob Bone

Well, I think that phones are most likely the most likely exposure point to hacking attempts - they are ripe for exploitation and theft of personal data.
 
If I am not mistaken, there have been cases where police were able to do a warrantless search of people's phone data, REQUIRING the phone owner to give them access, simply because the courts looked at a fingerprint ID mechanism on a phone differently than a more traditional password.
 
But again, the real exposure is that your phone is exposed by potential flaws in ever-rapidly changing OS code for phones, as well as exposed because of web site flaws that allow things like Clear Case Intercepts to happen, AND, when you connect your phone through a public network, you have an even more insidious exposure.
 
I would urge you to rethink the notion of keeping passwords stored on your phone.  When I have some site I sign up for, where I need a user name and password, and I don't access that site frequently, I will often send an email to myself, with a subject line saying something like: Billy Bob's Crab Shack and Auto Detailing site account info, and then in the body of the email, I will add text that will clue me in to the user ID I used, and I will also add a password hint sentence that gives me and only me enough info to where I will understand what I used for a password.  So, even if my email gets hacked, nobody would be able to figure out any of my user ID's and passwords for any of the sites I have set up accounts on.
 
Best of it all for you - stay secure, 
 
Bob Bone
 

Welcome back Karyn.
 
Where u b?
 

Brilliant craigb.

bapu
Welcome back Karyn.
 
Where u b?

Nowhere,  just been quiet and busy.

bapu

Karyn
Bob,  how do you know when your toast is ready if you don't allow your toaster to email you?

He sends an email to the coffee maker to confirm the toast is ready.
 
DUH!!
 
Every Juan knows coffee makers are the most secure device on the internetz.

Come on now, Bapu.  I guess you missed the security bulletin on the Home Shopping Network, where they demonstrated that coffee makers are only secure IF you used the coupon code 'HotCoffee' when you purchased it, and further, Professor Juan Valdez from Columbian University (he is a DA - Doctor of Agriculture), has discovered that if either the coffee was secretly switched out to Taster's Choice OR he only drank half a cup on a regular basis, that indeed the coffee maker was then wide open to hacking.
 
Nope - I have switched over to storing all of my passwords in my brand new Ronco Popeil's Bass-O-Matic.  It stores everything as puree, and because I use the WHOLE password, it retains all the essential vitamins and minerals.  In fact, 5 out of 4 cooking show judges recommend it.  AND, because when I bought it, it was before midnight that night, I was able to set it up as RAID, because they gave me a SECOND Bass-O-Matic for FREE - I just had to pay a separate $68.53 for processing and handling.  (That was kind of weird, actually, since they both came in the same box).
 
I can even shoot cannon balls through my Bass-O-Matic, and it still floats!  See, the product uses a revolutionary micro-fine polymer font, so nobody can read the fine print, and wait - there's MORE!
 
Bob Bone
 

bapu
Brilliant cra1gb.

Phyxed

Karyn
I use "Incorrect" as my standard password.
 
If I ever forget it, or type it wrong, any system will respond with "Your password is incorrect" ...

If that's original, it's brilliant. OK, it's brilliant even if you didn't come up with it yourself.
 
I keep my hundreds of passwords in an encrypted Word document in an encrypted, hidden folder. My computer is in a locked room with alarms, video surveillance and bars on the windows (no I'm not in prison, just paranoid).
 
This superseded my previous method, which was sticky notes on the side of my monitor. I had to abandon that method when we went to flat-screens, which didn't have enough space on the sides for dozens of postits.