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Someone opened my phone (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by Dislodge3233@feddit.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back.

I'm a bit confused how this even happened. When I got the phone back, they were going through my contacts. I checked app usage stats and they went through a banking app (not missing money), maps, signal, etc.

Is there a way to figure out how they even unlocked my phone?

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[–] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This maybe a strange suggestion. Aside from the banking app, it seems like the maps and contacts app were used with good intentions to return the phone. The person returned the phone to your friend, so clearly had good intentions. Your friend may have the phone number of the person in their call log when they called to return, unless of course they used your phone to call. If possible, have you thought about calling that person and asking about this just out of curiosity?

[–] Dislodge3233@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It was clearly good will. Even the banking, they probably didn't realize the app was banking (foreign bank). Signal was Molly, so they honestly were personally confused since I run KISS Launcher.

The problem is that they used my phone to call my contacts.

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

they honestly were personally confused because I run KISS launcher

This is what I think would happen if someone stole my laptop. Even if they got my password, they would need to figure out how to start sway, and then launch any useful application. I know there's no security in obscurity, but I think it would be pretty funny to see someone try