• kevinsky@feddit.nl
    13·
    2 hours ago

    The amount of people that leave things like youtube logged in on hotel room tv’s is also moderately staggering.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 hour ago

      Tv and app creators I feel like are also a bit responsible for this by not making it easy to do timed logouts when you log into a device for the first time. Unless you have a mental or physical checklist going its not a high priority

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 hours ago

    A non-tech store had some iPhones and iPads on display. No internet. But it COULD connect to my phone hotspot. Wish I did something more than just download a rainbow six siege pic and set it as the wallpaper, but they took down that demo for I think close to a month.

  • Art3mis@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 hours ago

    This is peak timothy behavior. You know he went home to absolutely destroy his younger sibling in halo

  • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
    86·
    3 hours ago

    I dont care for 2fa. Not interested in having my phone connected to my computer, and i dont like having an extra step when logging into stuff – especially an extra step that needs me to use a second device. Id honestly rather risk getting hacked over ever having to use 2fa again.

    • greenMeanHoppinMachine@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      Use a Yubikey. It’s a small USB Device you can put on a keychain. It is still a second device, but it’s not your phone. And you always have your keys with you, anyway.

    • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      This makes me mad but I have absolutely no justification. Like, it’s your life. But I am incensed. Godspeed.

    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      31·
      2 hours ago

      Why do you think you need to connect your phone to your computer?

      You do know you can just generate codes and neither device will know of the others existence, right?

      • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 hours ago

        I have no reason to believe that the google authenticator app on my google phone doesn’t register and record that it’s being used to log into XYZ website, and further that XYZ website is not then sending back unique identifying info to Google about me when ive used the code to log in.

        I’ve lived with tech long enough to know that if they say “we absolutely don’t,” it really means they probably do.

        Like when they swore up and down and gaslit us that our phones aren’t listening to us to generate ads.

        How many lies can I believe before I begin assuming everything is just another lie from a liar?

        Guess im paranoid.

        But that whole thing ignores that it’s an annoying second step with another device. Like “you want to log in? Thread a needle with the string in your pocket first…”

        • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
          4·
          2 hours ago

          But then just don’t use google authenticator and instead one of the FOSS alternatives? Aegis comes to mind.

          Like the original reply to your situation said, you do you - but this seems a weird threat model to me, extra-step point notwithstanding.

  • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    Back when I was in college, I was young and dumb enough that I’d login to AIM on the college computers. (Nowadays I won’t login to personal accounts on anything I don’t fully control. I’m always surprised by coworkers who check their bank accounts, social media, personal email, etc. on their work laptops.)

    Anyway, even at the time I was pretty good at logging out when I left each computer, but once I forgot. The next time I logged in, I was surprised to discover that my entire buddy list had been cleared. I never understood the motivation behind doing so. I don’t think it was particularly funny but, even if it were, it’s not like the perpetrator got to see my reaction or even to point and laugh.

    I did learn a lesson from it, but presuming that that was the mission of whomever did it feels … Generous.

      • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 hours ago

        You shouldn’t.

        If the goal was to teach me a lesson, there were less destructive ways to do it.

        If the goal was to troll, well, that’s without redeeming qualities.

    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 hours ago

      Maybe that’s the name he uses so people think he is called timothy! And it wasn’t a sprint store! Classic misdirects

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
      English
      51·
      4 hours ago

      Do you blame the locksmith if you lose your keys?

      I could take the locks off the door to my house but then I can’t be mad when I get robbed

      Edit: I hope that the lesson learned is about needing to have multiple forms of MFA and a safe location for back up codes, like you would have multiple sets of keys and maybe a key box hidden in a safe place. Not blaming you for not realizing it at the time, it’s not something one would think about until it’s too late. It’s not like we had our parents to teach us about MFA best practices like you might have for house keys

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
      92·
      6 hours ago

      You didn’t print out or write down the codes they give you for this exact situation? 100% your fault and not 2FA’s

      • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 hours ago

        True but also I wasn’t there when other people had to clear out my apartment so I didn’t have much of a clue wether or not it would be saved.

        Still know my pw managers pw by heart and have my gmail account pw written down but not that actual code, no.

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
        33·
        3 hours ago

        Google doesn’t give you codes. They don’t even tell you that they enabled 2FA. If you log in on an android device, they will automatically enable it for 2FA, and for some reason they assume you will have access to this phone until the end of time, even if you haven’t turned it on in months. The only way to go around this is to set up 2FA manually.

        Google has locked so many people I know out of their accounts it’s ridiculous.

  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    Logged into what?

    What’s a Sprint store?

    If it’s a shop that sells electronics like Currys or Mediamarkt then why would this person log into anything on display?

    • fonix232@fedia.io
      16·
      7 hours ago

      Phone carrier.

      They have display phones and tablets.

      And some people use those display units for social media for some reason.

      Back in the 2010s I had a friend work in stores as a “device expert”, he handled daily resets of the display units (this was pre-MDM easy management days). The number of people who just logged on to Twitter, Facebook Messenger, even WhatsApp or GRINDR of all things (yes, dude left his grindr account logged in, full of explicit images, which downloaded to the device’s gallery, while the phones were most often used by KIDS in the store…), it was simply astonishing.

    • jayands@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Sprint is was a phone carrier in North America (pretty sure just the US, but they may have been in Canadia, too)

      • kboos1@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 hours ago

        Their called T-Mobile now they merged or bought them, I don’t remember. T-Mobile is owned by Deutsche Telekom

      • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        7 hours ago

        No it was USA only. We have three mobile carriers that own all the cell towers here. You’re either with Rogers, Bell, or Telus, or one of their derivatives. There’s zero competition here, it’s ridiculous.