Anons, i cannot stress how important it is for you to have phone safety.
A lot of us old techies knew when they came out with cell phones this was where they were going because of the nature of sim cards (which must be associated to a real life person).
Do not use any 'accounts' with your phone, at all. No google account for google play, and it basically means you have to ditch apple, because they pretty much require you to have an account (the same thing applies to windows if you're using it (quick tip there, format your computer and DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET DURING INSTALL UNTIL AFTER YOU GET TO THE DESKTOP - NEVER USE AN ACCOUNT EXCEPT IN A BROWSER THAT IS PROTECTED AND NOT STORING ANYTHING).
Anyway, for your android phone, if you do have an account linked to your phone, the best thing you can do is get your personal files off and do a factory reset. upon reboot DO NOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT. Skip, don't connect to the internet, make the device think there's no internet. NEVER use google services, use other side-loading sites like apk-pure or something.
For apple phones: take a hammer to it, or sell it.
Protect yourself. Accounts are an attack vector to identify you, harvest data on you, and concatenate all data on you in a nice big database shared by all of big tech. Also keep in mind about using your cell # for 2FA (the BS 'we protect you' baloney): YOUR CELL # is a PRIMARY KEY IN A DATABASE, that means someone can go:
DECLARE @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER = "Your actual phone number"
SELECT * FROM FACEBOOK.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM AMAZON.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM APPLE.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM NETFLIX.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM GOOGLE.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
.....
And then get EVERYTHING about you
tl;dr: Be forward thinking: don't use accounts, don't use your cell, don't believe 2FA (use a password manager like keepass.info and protect yourself never give that cell # out unless it's impossible (this is why you should probably have 2 cell #'s)). do a digital reset of your life and move forward with this new thinking.
Anons, i cannot stress how important it is for you to have phone safety.
A lot of us old techies knew when they came out with cell phones this was where they were going because of the nature of sim cards (which must be associated to a real life person).
Do not use any 'accounts' with your phone, at all. No google account for google play, and it basically means you have to ditch apple, because they pretty much require you to have an account (the same thing applies to windows if you're using it (quick tip there, format your computer and DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET DURING INSTALL UNTIL AFTER YOU GET TO THE DESKTOP - NEVER USE AN ACCOUNT EXCEPT IN A BROWSER THAT IS PROTECTED AND NOT STORING ANYTHING).
Anyway, for your android phone, if you do have an account linked to your phone, the best thing you can do is get your personal files off and do a factory reset. upon reboot DO NOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT. Skip, don't connect to the internet, make the device think there's no internet. NEVER use google services, use other side-loading sites like apk-pure or something.
For apple phones: take a hammer to it, or sell it.
Protect yourself. Accounts are an attack vector to identify you, harvest data on you, and concatenate all data on you in a nice big database shared by all of big tech. Also keep in mind about using your cell # for 2FA (the BS 'we protect you' baloney): YOUR CELL # is a PRIMARY KEY IN A DATABASE, that means someone can go:
DECLARE @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER VARCHAR(MAX)
SET @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER = "Your actual phone number"
SELECT * FROM FACEBOOK.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM AMAZON.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM APPLE.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM NETFLIX.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER
JOIN
SELECT * FROM GOOGLE.DB where phone like @YOUR_PHONE_NUMBER .....
And then get EVERYTHING about you
tl;dr: Be forward thinking: don't use accounts, don't use your cell, don't believe 2FA (use a password manager like keepass.info and protect yourself never give that cell # out unless it's impossible (this is why you should probably have 2 cell #'s)). do a digital reset of your life and move forward with this new thinking.
isnt that what the clouds been doing all this time?