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PSA: Letting a stranger check your phone security changed my whole setup
I was at a coffee shop in Portland last month and this guy named Mark offered to run a quick scan on my phone for free. He pointed out three apps I had installed were pulling location data every 5 minutes and I never even noticed. It hit me how much we trust default settings without thinking, and now I check app permissions once a month. Has anyone else had a random encounter like that change how you handle security?
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matthewkim1mo ago
I get where you're coming from with "Trust the guy who calls himself 'Mark' at a coffee shop," that does sound sketchy on paper. But honestly, the guy was just being helpful and I'm glad he did it because I never would've caught those location apps on my own. Sometimes a random encounter is exactly what wakes you up to bad habits.
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uma_johnson14d ago
I was actually at a coffee shop in Portland too, weirdly enough, last year and some dude offered to "fix my battery life" and ended up showing me how my Amazon shopping app was tracking my location like crazy even when I wasn't using it. @rowan725 I totally get the "trust the guy named Mark" thing sounds crazy, but sometimes random people just have good advice they want to share. I had no idea apps could even do that until he showed me the permissions list with like 12 things checked off. Now I go through my phone once a month too and delete anything that feels off. It's wild how much we just tap "allow" without reading anything lmao.
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