Repairer broke my phone

[PhilT]

@sofe_au

While this is technically a better phone than the SE, it has an older chip and will get to the point where it can no longer be updated a year or two earlier than the SE, meaning we won’t get the benefit of a phone that lasts longer, as planned.

‘Security’ as applied by some apps fail in phones that are not deemed to be ‘secure’ but ‘the app’ (provider) will not divulge what that test might be. Rather than summarise it again, consider whether one or the other iPhone might have an issue sooner or later than the other, regardless of chipsets.

Vodaphone Mobile Issue

In these days of scamming SMS with embedded links to who knows where that seems to be somewhat less than just a very ordinary approach to 2FA. I deal with a number of companies that once had but no longer allow email 2FA because of ‘security’ not ‘privacy’. ING Bank is as bad or worse. They treat older phones with their app as insecure for certain actions but fine for most. Mine is 2 1/2 years old and became ‘insecure’ about a year ago. ING refuse to divulge what constitutes an ‘insecure…

It is probably related to security update services being ‘active’ or ‘expired’ for the product.