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Originally Posted by Aces4
You, in premise, agree with my post but are claiming that your information can be recovered quickly. It will still be compromised by the thief! One doesn't used bricks to steal a car when sly capturing and changing the keyfob will do the trick. I don't leave anything in my vehicle either other than some old CD's that make me happy when I listen to them.
Pack all you want on your phone and carry it with you everywhere, that's your choice. Many of us don't want that option and the card works. Leaving a cell phone poolside while swimming is a bizarre plan in my mind.
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I understood your post to say that my information would be made visible to someone else or that I would lose access to it forever. Anything is possible but neither is likely and is both are more easily accomplished by other means.
If my car is stolen I'm much less worried about the valuables than I am about my car but if my concern is my valuables then I'm not worried about a key fob I'm worried about a brick. The thought of someone cloning my key fob and taking my car is way, way down on the list. Sure, it can happen, but the odds are greatly against it.
You don't seem to have understood about the phone as a portal. Much of your data is not on your phone, it is simply accessed through your phone. I don't carry my phone because it has the entirety of Google on it, I carry my phone because I can access Google through it. If someone wants to get your personal information, stealing your phone or hacking it when you are at the pool is a terrible way to go about it. They would be better off hacking a credit card company, bank, health care company, or IRS where the data is actually stored.
If you don't want to carry your phone and you don't want to use a digital ID that doesn't exist yet, no problem, no one is trying to force you to. But don't try to scare others away from it by throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. Carrying a phone isn't what makes the phone vulnerable, poor online practices does - and those generally happen in the home, not at the pool.