Summary: My father, who has over 30 compromised accounts, tells me not to install Ironfox (aka one of the most secure browsers for Android) and F-Droid.
Background: I discovered that my father has a phone with LineageOS and asked if I could use it. He said yes because he no longer used it.
Today I started using it, saw what it was like, and it wasn't much different from Android.
I was having some trouble putting some songs on that phone, so I asked him for help.
He went to the Google Play Store and installed Files by Google after logging into my account.
My account has parental controls, so that phone had parental controls too.
I was supposed to use that phone maybe to use once or twice a month and see what a phone without Google services was like (which I couldn't disable now because it had parental controls).
So, after finding out what that phone had become, I tried to do a factory reset, but I couldn't.
Then (somehow) I managed to convince my parents to remove the parental controls, but my dad started saying, "Don't be surprised if your information ends up in strange places because you installed browsers from outside the Play Store (in this case, it was Cromite and Ironfox) and for running FTP servers (which I was only using to transfer some music I had on another site)."
Sorry for the long text 😅
RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴☠️ - 7hr
Your pop has a lot to learn. Freakin hilarious.
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rnercle - 3hr
if he's such a boogle fan, why even did he have a phone with LOS?
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monovergent - 1hr
My uncle has worked many years in IT and sometimes lectures me on digital privacy and security. But I got a glimpse of his phones and computers, it was disappointing. Bogus security apps and optimizations and a refusal to update Windows. Probably different situation with OP's father, but quite emphasizes the importance of continuing education.
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Chewt @beehaw.org - 3hr
Well it sounds like you have things back in control with the parental controls gone, so if you haven’t already I would uninstall the play store, and Files by google. You can check out a file manager such as Fossify File Manager as a replacement.
The last part does sound a bit concerning though, you aren’t running an actual FTP server from your phone are you? I would recommend not doing that if you are, as FTP famously doesn’t encrypt traffic. If you need to move files between your phone and a computer, I would recommend using sftp instead and having the sftp server run on your PC.
You can use something termux on android to connect to your pc over ssh, as well as sftp.
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monovergent - 1hr
And me over here wanting to use parental controls to protect my elders haha
A win for you getting parental controls lifted, hopefully you can eventually prove to them that the phone is just fine (or even better) with your apps of choice.
ori in privacy @lemmy.ml
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Summary: My father, who has over 30 compromised accounts, tells me not to install Ironfox (aka one of the most secure browsers for Android) and F-Droid.
Background: I discovered that my father has a phone with LineageOS and asked if I could use it. He said yes because he no longer used it.
Today I started using it, saw what it was like, and it wasn't much different from Android.
I was having some trouble putting some songs on that phone, so I asked him for help.
He went to the Google Play Store and installed Files by Google after logging into my account.
My account has parental controls, so that phone had parental controls too.
I was supposed to use that phone maybe to use once or twice a month and see what a phone without Google services was like (which I couldn't disable now because it had parental controls).
So, after finding out what that phone had become, I tried to do a factory reset, but I couldn't.
Then (somehow) I managed to convince my parents to remove the parental controls, but my dad started saying, "Don't be surprised if your information ends up in strange places because you installed browsers from outside the Play Store (in this case, it was Cromite and Ironfox) and for running FTP servers (which I was only using to transfer some music I had on another site)."
Sorry for the long text 😅
Your pop has a lot to learn. Freakin hilarious.
if he's such a boogle fan, why even did he have a phone with LOS?
My uncle has worked many years in IT and sometimes lectures me on digital privacy and security. But I got a glimpse of his phones and computers, it was disappointing. Bogus security apps and optimizations and a refusal to update Windows. Probably different situation with OP's father, but quite emphasizes the importance of continuing education.
Well it sounds like you have things back in control with the parental controls gone, so if you haven’t already I would uninstall the play store, and Files by google. You can check out a file manager such as Fossify File Manager as a replacement.
The last part does sound a bit concerning though, you aren’t running an actual FTP server from your phone are you? I would recommend not doing that if you are, as FTP famously doesn’t encrypt traffic. If you need to move files between your phone and a computer, I would recommend using sftp instead and having the sftp server run on your PC.
You can use something termux on android to connect to your pc over ssh, as well as sftp.
And me over here wanting to use parental controls to protect my elders haha
A win for you getting parental controls lifted, hopefully you can eventually prove to them that the phone is just fine (or even better) with your apps of choice.