Help regarding securing an Android phone
Today, a woman sitting next to me on the train asked to use my phone to call her husband because the recharge in her's had expired, so I let her use it (probably not the brightest thing to do, I know :bigkek: ). So she called her husband's number and tapped like once or twice on the screen to disconnect the call and stuff, and then gave it back to me. So there have been many cases where people ask for others' phones to make calls and then connect some hardware component to it to steal data or clone the SIM. She didn't insert anything into it as far as I could see, but I just wanted to check after she gave it back. So I checked the app list to see if there were any unknown apps (there weren't). Then I checked the permissions overview for all apps and it was the same as before. Ran a security scan with McAfee and no issues were reported. Considered using adb debugging with logcat to see if it could show previous audits, but haven't got around to it yet. Is there anything else I need to do or anything I've overlooked?
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Also checked all the running processes, everything seemed to be standard core system processes, nothing unusual.
If you're concerned you can set up a "work" profile on your phone (most models allow it) and switch to the work profile before handing over. It will separate the data.
Noted for next time
Any specific thing to check if no harm was done this time?
unless she was super suspicious I wouldn't worry about it personally
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If nothing was plugged in, then your risk here is near zero
Oh good to know, yes nothing was plugged in
Although I heard something about how dialling certain numbers enables the endpoint to which you're making the call to track your location/install malware and stuff like that, so wanted to make sure if such a thing exists since I've never heard about it before
Yeah, did you hear about how I can blink five times and install malware on your brain?
:bigkek: :bigkek: :bigkek: I guess that clears it up, ty
I totally did not say it based off this (jk, I didn't)
