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this episode of tech to Buffalo is brought to you by the LG twins wash two loads at the same time all right put on your tinfoil caps boys and girls we got to have a chat about the bits and the bytes everyone has that person in their life who can't help but click you know they don't even read anything and yet there they go clicking on okay next except don't be that person let's take a minute to talk about your phone and security or privacy we're going to talk about three major things here we're going to talk about permission location and protection the three major things that you need to think about when you're asking yourself is my phone even remotely secure but before we get into that stuff I just want to give you a quick disclaimer none of this is going to make your phone impenetrable okay there's no such thing the whole point of putting security measures on your phone is the same thing as putting like a bike lock on your bike when you leave it out on the street you wouldn't leave it out there on its own make it super easy for someone to take it would you same idea here we have a ton of important stuff on our phones these days and all you're trying to do is make it that much harder for someone to get to it should your phone become lost or stolen alright let's start with a big one permissions permissions that are actually much better on iOS than they were on Android up until very recently as a marshmallow they're basically on par now apps need to ask for an entire list of permissions that they're going to need eventually right when you download them so they're going to let you know ahead of time these are the things that we're going to need to be able to do our job correctly the nice thing is it won't actually grant that permission to that component until it comes time for it to actually be used so if you download an app that needs your camera then you'll say okay I know you're going to need my camera but it doesn't actually have access to until you go to take a picture with the app all the settings everything that you agree to even after you've already started using the camera you said yes allow that's not final you can go into your settings into the permissions area of whatever settings whatever device you have and you can allow and disallow specific components for apps on a per app basis if an app is going crazy using some sort of background data then you can shut it off here you don't have to give it access to whatever it is that it had access to if for example you don't want snapchat to have access to your camera you can totally do that I don't think you'd be very good at snapchat but you totally could or you could use it to turn off location access on a per app basis location location location we're not talking real estate we're talking about phones it's a big deal and a lot of us don't realize that a lot of apps are tracking our location in the background Facebook is one of the biggest offenders Facebook tracks every last thing you do on your Android device and in fact even on your iOS device uninstalling facebook has been one of the best things I've ever done on my Android device in terms of processing and in terms of battery life I can't even start to imagine how much of my information Facebook has just because it was running in the background just like for permissions pay attention for what is asking for your location you can turn off your location overall for everything on your device by just turning off the GPS but then that means that you're not going to get any of the functionality that you need for things like Foursquare Yelp Google Maps anything that requires your location to function so what you're going to need to do is again use those permissions that we just talked about pop in turn off location for the for the apps that are behaving poorly the apps that you would send to the corner seriously like I said with physical access to your device all bets are off so make sure that you have a lock turned on on your phone I don't care if it's a pattern I don't care if it's a passphrase I don't care if it's a pin do something because at the very least you're keeping people from just getting straight into your text messages immediately you're emailing it immediately and if you're logged into things like Amazon on your account they can just start buying things and it's best not safe not to mention then they have your home address lock your phone there's no excuse not to especially with smart lock on Android it makes things so much easier you don't get any of the pain points from having something locking on your phone with all of the benefits of having a lot there if you get separated from your phone you don't have to worry smart lock will take care of it it'll stay lock down but for convenience when you have it on your body you're in good shape you can still get in there just as easily as you would if it were turned off in the scenarios where you do get separated from your phone though Android device manager and iCloud are two phenomenal tools that you must set up install Android device manager on your Android device and make sure that iCloud Find My Phone remote wife are turned on on iCloud if you have an iOS device if you ever get separated from your device you can figure out where it is give that information to the authorities or I don't know if you want to go daredevil on them just go track them down and if you do get separated from your device and you can't get it back you can always remote wipe it so at the very least you're only out a device and not your whole life guys come on play it smart play it safe be be the best audience I want the teeth TechnoBuffalo audience still eat just be the savviest about being smart about what's on your device speaking of the audience I know there's a lot of you lurkers okay I've seen a lot of comments our comments are like are weird sometimes they're great sometimes they're not so great but if you're a lurker if you're someone who 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