Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

• Paper_Soldier@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just got tired of everything being a hack. I simply need my phone to work and I also see a bit of irony installing play services just to receive proper notifications. I know I know the whole app sandboxing bit. But still, it seems counterintuitive I don’t have to worry if my phone’s going to let me down if I’m driving a need to download some obscure parking app or if I need tap to pay to function which in the United States I do. One time I was at Costco, renewing my membership, they needed me to download the app real quick to do something on the account. But because the app wouldn’t function right, my wife had to do it.

  I needed to buy some ribs the other day, but I forgot my wallet. If I had tapped to pay on my phone, that wouldn’t have been an issue.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they needed me to download the app

    They wanted you to, but i get your point.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    receive proper notifications. I know I know the whole app sandboxing bit

    Still worth it for the sandbox

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  • pishadoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t NEED tap to pay. I literally never use it, ever, unless I have a card with a bad chip (happened once).

    Forgetting your wallet like a dummy doesn’t mean you NEED tap to pay, it means you need to remember to bring your wallet.

    Also, there is nothing you NEED the Costco app for, an org like that can’t lock things behind an app to function because their customer base is too broad, they will inevitably have old people with T9 Nokia bricks still. It might have been the most convenient way to achieve it, but it’s not a requirement - even if that particular sales associate didn’t know how and would have to phone a friend.

    All that to say I’m not trying to convince you to use gOS; I fully recognize that security is on one end of the spectrum from convenience, and we all choose where we want to be on that spectrum. But I felt the need to counter your claims… Nobody NEEDS tap to pay smh. If you care about privacy at all you wouldn’t be linking cards to apple or Google, adding yet another layer of giant data collection to some of your most intimate data.

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