Top of my list for the sec\u00adond\u00adary lay\u00ader, after the pass\u00adword for the entire device, are passcodes for both Drop\u00adbox and Ever\u00adnote; I keep per\u00adson\u00adal inform\u00ada\u00adtion in one and cli\u00adent inform\u00ada\u00adtion in the oth\u00ader. You can unlink a giv\u00aden device<\/a> from Drop\u00adbox and revoke access to Ever\u00adnote<\/a> from anoth\u00ader machine, but that won\u2019t neces\u00adsar\u00adily stop someone read\u00ading the inform\u00ada\u00adtion already on the device. Secur\u00adity or passcodes solve the idle curi\u00ados\u00adity prob\u00adlem, at least to some extent (this is a premi\u00adum, i.e. pay-for fea\u00adture on Ever\u00adnote). Drop\u00adbox also gives you the option of two-factor authen\u00adtic\u00ada\u00adtion, and of course you can encrypt the files that you store.<\/p>\n For actu\u00adal pass\u00adwords and smal\u00adler items of inform\u00ada\u00adtion, I use LinkeSoft Secret!<\/a>, although I may move away from it since it does\u00adn\u2019t sync the Android pass\u00adword store to the Mac. I\u2019m para\u00adnoid enough that I don\u2019t do online bank\u00ading on my phone or tab\u00adlet; I have my bank\u2019s app on my phone but only to find the nearest loc\u00ada\u00adtion of a cash machine or branch.<\/p>\n I already have a PIN<\/span> required for any\u00adone to buy an app on the device; this also stops my daugh\u00adter buy\u00ading games or in-app pur\u00adchases. (In the Google PlayStore, under Set\u00adtings, it\u2019s the \u2018Use pass\u00adword to restrict pur\u00adchases\u2019 setting.)<\/p>\n I have Lookout <\/a> installed, which has options to find your phone, then lock it, and even remotely wipe your phone\u2019s data; for\u00adtu\u00adnately I did\u00adn\u2019t need to try it out but there is a cer\u00adtain peace of mind in know\u00ading that nuc\u00adle\u00adar option is available.<\/p>\n What all of these apps have in com\u00admon is the assump\u00adtion that you may have more than one device run\u00adning Android, which is more than I can say for Google accounts. If you go into your account set\u00adtings, secur\u00adity, man\u00adage access, you are con\u00adfron\u00adted with some\u00adthing that looks like this: <\/p>\n which does\u00adn\u2019t give me any clues as to which of the many \u2018revoke access\u2019 but\u00adtons I should push to revoke access to a spe\u00adcif\u00adic device. Surely Google could have figured out that some people might have more than one Android device, or more than one applic\u00ada\u00adtion or web site want\u00ading access?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not long ago, after a tir\u00ading busi\u00adness trip, I left my knit\u00adting bag with my Nex\u00adus 7\u2033 tab\u00adlet on the plane. I real\u00adised it was gone before my con\u00adnect\u00ading flight left, and thanks to some help\u00adful United Air\u00adlines people, got it back in time to make that flight home. I did have a few pan\u00adicked \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cRevok\u00ading Access\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[107,108],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google](\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Google_access.jpg\")
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