I’m not an alarm expert, but it’s a little scary to think about the potential repercussions of having our alarm code on a mobile device. I’ve been thinking about this, and I don’t think the issue is security at all. I think it’s more of a safety issue. Being able to see your phone location is incredibly useful, but being able to read your text messages can be equally as useful.
Well, yeah. Having a mobile phone that can read your text messages is great. The problem is that it’s not always easy to trust that one person (or even just one person) with your phone will use it for good. The fact that it is now possible to read your emails may just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of abuse.
So why is security so important? Well, if you’re an employee or a parent with a teenager, then you want to be able to see their text messages, and your boss is probably as worried about your phone as you are. As a security professional, I know that every day your job is to keep tabs on your employees, and you can’t just go and do it without first determining who exactly is using your phone.
You don’t want your employees to be giving out their phone numbers (which would be very revealing) or their passwords to all your other employees. But you also don’t want your employees to be giving out your phone numbers to their friends and family. If they are, then they’re giving out your phone number. But if they’re not, then you don’t know who they are.
Now you’re probably thinking, “But what if theyre doing it on purpose to get me to know them?” that would be a bad thing! Unfortunately, that’s exactly what we’re seeing with the rising amount of “pushing” qr code usage on our users’ phones. This is bad because if you dont know who you are, then you can’t decide whether or not to do something.
If you use a phone call or text message to tell someone that you know them, you are not only giving out their contact details, but also their privacy. Theoretically it would be considered a violation of privacy, but most people would say its not a big deal because the person you’re talking to already knows who you are.
A good example of a privacy issue is the recent news of someone’s contact details being leaked online. This is because you can be contacting someone and they are not telling you who they are. But if you are talking to someone and they don’t answer, you aren’t giving out their contact details either. This is called a privacy risk.
The internet is filled with various methods of qr code usage, from QR codes to the phone numbers of celebrities, to just plain old phone numbers. These can be used to bypass the security systems of a website or phone company. There are various companies out there that make this process easier, so it is often not against the law to use a phone number or website to reach a person.
Just like how we use a zip code to get to a specific restaurant, a website’s contact information or phone number can be used in the same way.
While I don’t know exactly how many different ways this can be done, it’s almost unbelievable that we can use a website that does not even have a website address to reach a person. These days it’s pretty easy to set up a phone number or a QR code to reach a person. We just need to be very careful that it’s not a site that you have a link to, or that you don’t really want to link to.