[dba-Tech] Why I just destroyed my cell phone

[Ed Tesiny]

Arthur, nevertheless they do come in useful when away from your land line.
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> They are way too easily hacked, and even though you would have to know a
> lot about mathematics to guess mine, there are bots that can be purchased
> for an insignificant sum and then employed on an army of easily-compromised
> phones, and also tablets. Desktops are better protected, but even these are
> at serious risk.
>
> I could be wrong, but I think that my land-line is safe. Even there, if I
> don't recognize the incoming number, then I don't answer. I don't even
> answer when someone is buzzing my apartment number -- not without a prior
> phone call that he or she will be arriving momentarily.
>
> There is also the cost of a cell phone. Given that I receive a couple of
> calls a week. typically from bots trying to sell me subscriptions to
> magazines I never read, or alternatively whose content I can obtain on the
> net, I simply don't answer, and pretty soon they stroke me off their list
> of potential victims.
>
> These companies have cubicles filled with underpaid employees who push a
> button and dial the next number in a sequence. If I had any say in the
> matter, I would outlaw them all, and send the employers (not the employees)
> to prison. This is not a "freedom of speech" issue: this is harassment,
> plain and simple. I'm tired of it and I want it to end.
>
> Fortunately, my contract with Bell.ca enables callerr-ID, and I have only a
> small number of friends that know my number, so it's relatively easy to
> delete the bad guys and girls.
>
> --
> Arthur
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