How much stress if you lost your phone📱?? \ stacker news ~security

going out to buy a cheap phone today, why?

because I was sitting there last night and I realised, my entire digital life is on this phone. Wtf am I doing!!

My emails, my fiat banking, my personal notes, calendar, photos, password manager, authenticatior, health records, utilities apps, everything I need day to day

If I were to lose it, it would be an almighty stress trying to sign back in, recover etc

I started thinking, the phone's use as a voice communication device is becoming less and less, hardly anyone rings me anymore, it's all instant chat apps

Why am I risking, taking my digital world around with me in my pocket! I could accidentally leave it somewhere, drop it, lose, have it stolen, which is super common in big cities now

Now, I don't have any on chain corn on there, that's all another story and secret 🤫

but now I'm going to two phones 📱

When I'm out and about, I just need to be contactable for emergencies, on a basic handset, where if I accidentally dropped it down a drain, it wouldn't bother me

Do you agree with me? Could you re-evaluate your setup? If you lost your phone, would it be a major stress 😩

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Maximux 17 Jan

The idea of having 2 phones is simply brilliant. The "main" phone protected at home and the "extra" phone for going out into the outside world. I think it's a wonderful preventive security action.

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @profullstack 17 Jan

i lost my phone in a car fire last August and I got it replaced within a day.

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 17 Jan

Huge amount of stress. The phone is more me than me, in the sense that someone with full access to my phone can operate more aspects of my life than I can without access to it.

I broke my phone once and it was very stressful. Thankfully, a backup one was available at home.