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Originally Posted by Aces4

Data being stolen is ongoing, constant. Putting all personal information, records, data on one stupid cellphone is ridiculous. Who wants that exposure and the hackers are always one step ahead of security.

There might be less personal information on your phone than you think. In many cases, the phone is simply a portal to access information sitting on servers around the world. My Google contacts *might* be stored on my phone but they *are* stored with Google. Hacking Google's cloud (or Amazon's or Apple's or Home Depot's or ...) will have a much bigger bang for the buck then accessing any one phone.

So you drop, lose or have your phone stolen, how do plan on continuing with your life with all your personal information on that one device.

*Because* all that information is available through a single portal and because of the way the Apple ecosystem works I can quickly recover all that information very quickly.

I don't worry about anyone being able to access that data from the stolen device because of the security features of the device and the apps that access the data. FaceID, passcodes, locked-out configuration settings, 2FA, and remote-wiping features all work together to minimize the risk of unauthorized access.

Please don't believe Apple devices can't be hacked, they may be more difficult but nothing is safe.

Again, what do you mean by "hacked?" Any computer is vulnerable to phishing emails and malicious links though some operating systems are better than others at protecting the user against himself. Remotely accessing and controlling any device is possible but it comes back to the bang for the buck. A hacker can spend a tremendous amount of time working to access my device to gain all the personal files from one relatively unimportant individual. Or, they can spend their time working to access a corporate cloud and gain access to the data from hundreds of thousands of individuals; I feel pretty safe.

Right now there is a quickening rise in automobile thefts do to the ease of reprogramming a new fob to one's vehicle. Don't leave valuables in your vehicle because the vehicle could disappear in a heartbeat.

Useful PSA but what does it have to do with hacking phones?

I don't leave valuables in my car anyway. Not because I expect to be the target of a thief with the antennas and equipment to trigger and clone my key fob, but because bricks are much more common.