Why it's wrong to save vital information on your phone.

[Barikui1]

It's really wrong to save vital information on your phone such as;
 * Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

I would suggest that we save all our important information in writing in our jotter or dairy, because a written than words is always longer than the memory.

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[Churchillvv]

Well, this is more like the commonest knowledge everyone that is in this forum must have acquired as long as they are active. if you have took you time to read the newbies read before posting thread or any of those pinned threads there is always a link to where you will read the basics of crypto space security wise advises and those two you mentioned about a the very commonest of them all.

Everyone that has a device is always protective of there devices even the commonest password of your phones are very secretive so that knowledge must be applied to your crypto assets. Be security wise all the time that's all I can say to anyone. there is a popular security phrase that says "Not your keys, Not your coin" so security consciousness is paramount.

Even if you write you password in a book its still not safe, no where is really safe but try as much as possible to protect your self.

[Saisher]

There is an application on GooglePlay that allows you to track your phone's whereabouts in case it was stolen or lost and you have the option to destroy all the data in that phone so the holder will not use all the information of your stolen phone, this is just in case you put some of the valuable information like your private keys, the phone is never a good place to store your password private keys or whatever, unless your phone is in your vault and you only use to retrieve important information.

[coinlary]

It's really wrong to save vital information on your phone such as;
 * Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

I would suggest that we save all our important information in writing in our jotter or dairy, because a written than words is always longer than the memory.

Apart from these y do you think your sim requires KYC verification Obviously  it's  to dive into our private affairs (especially internert and phone related)whenever the need arise and this could be abuse by any expert in the system , that's y we should always take perfect care of our secrets and sensitive  informations.

Thus, We should completely avoid saving datas on Gmail it's  very easy to attack as we subscribe to thousands of  News letters  over the years, making us more vulnerable  to attacks mostly phishing

[BitMaxz]

I remember someone who saved their seed phrase into the Evernote app after a few years of holding Bitcoins it suddenly transferred to an unknown address.
He didn't know what exactly happened he tried to blame the wallet developers and accuse them that these developers are thieves but after giving us much more information about where he saved all seed backups he said he pasted all backups in the Evernote app on his Android phone that he didn't know this app keeps syncing to the Evernote server which is not safe and I heard that this app is compromised.

So any device that is connected to the internet even if it is encrypted or saved to an encrypted app there is still a possibility it will be compromised.
That is why offline is the best option it could be to write them onto a piece of paper or old devices with no internet connection.

however, even if you write it on a piece of paper it can be still damaged over time in the long run and it's not water resistant.
Maybe having a metal plate and saving your seed phrase there is the best option in the long term.

There is an application on GooglePlay that allows you to track your phone's whereabouts in case it was stolen or lost and you have the option to destroy all the data in that phone so the holder will not use all the information of your stolen phone, this is just in case you put some of the valuable information like your private keys, the phone is never a good place to store your password private keys or whatever, unless your phone is in your vault and you only use to retrieve important information.

I think you talking about "find my phone app" It has a feature to wipe all data on the phone remotely if you have a PC and have access to email you can able to do that but it only works if the device is online.

[Coyster]

Even if you write you password in a book its still not safe, no where is really safe but try as much as possible to protect your self.

It is safe to write your seed phrase on a piece of paper, as long as you keep that piece of paper safely and only you have access to it. You could say there is no method that is 100% safe and that is true, but there are definitely methods that are highly secure and much safer than others. For example, saving your wallet seed phrase on your mobile device is very unsafe, your seed phrase should not be stored anywhere online, but offline and backed up safely on a piece of paper.

[mk4]

It's only reasonable to store passwords on your phone if it's on a good and reputable password manager. As for browser password storage, I'd only do it for useless online accounts like porn sites(not me, my friend told me).

As for wallet backups, definitely not unless it's a hot wallet with only very little funds.

[Upgrade00]

As for wallet backups, definitely not unless it's a hot wallet with only very little funds.

Even hot wallets with very little amounts should be secured adequately. Your address is a digital footprint and you should be careful with how you protect that and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

As a second point, storing your backup phrase like that sometimes can make one complacent and use that same method at other times.

[Lukmanfirdaus1]

Yes, I did that a long time ago, I printed everything that I thought was important, such as passwords, passwords and so on, then stored it in an archive that even my family couldn't reach. but what is more important is to upgrade our knowledge about protecting personal data, hackers will not enter our place if we don't have a loophole, it is always our fault that allows the data to be accessed. So that this doesn't happen, we can use layered security, for example, if your cellphone is stolen, before it is stolen, use pattern, fingerprint or other security, at least this can minimize criminals accessing our data, or so that your cellphone doesn't get hacked, don't just click on any link or fill out a form from the source. which is not trustworthy. So in the end, it's not a problem to store information on your cellphone if you know the rules for securing it.

[AYOBA]

It's really wrong to save vital information on your phone such as;
 * Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

This is excellent guidance. Nearly everyone here will benefit from your advise. We must take this into consideration. It is really not a good idea to store important documents on our phones because we never know who may find our phones, especially if we store important documents on the mail or store screenshots in the gallery. That's where all of our info is readily accessible to them. Some people are exceptionally intelligent, so before we even consider exchanging passwords, they've already accomplished everything they want. that case it's good to know where to save our information.

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

Saving the bank's information on the phone poses a significant risk. I even wonder why some people will store their ATM cards in the back of their phones, which is really dangerous. We've learnt how to protect our privacy in order to prevent falling victim to that element.

[Dunamisx]

That's nothing wrong with doing that, but it depends on the kind of person we are and how loose and reserve we appear being, some don't mind having other people have access to using their phone or other devices they use in having their private informations on it, we should also ensure that we make a good backup for every vital informations we are having and using phones shouldn't be our priority, but if we choose that, we should have a back up somewhere else and avoid third part using our device.

[decodx]

There is an application on GooglePlay that allows you to track your phone's whereabouts in case it was stolen or lost and you have the option to destroy all the data in that phone so the holder will not use all the information of your stolen phone, this is just in case you put some of the valuable information like your private keys, the phone is never a good place to store your password private keys or whatever, unless your phone is in your vault and you only use to retrieve important information.

Yes. Mobile apps for tracking or remote wiping sound helpful if your phone gets nabbed, but I don't think they're enough to shield sensitive stuff like private keys from prying eyes.  Hackers have all kinds of tricks to scan a phone's memory without even connecting to the internet. I think the best way to protect your private data on your phone is to use a strong password and encrypt everything.

[Sandra_hakeem]

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

we've gotten to a point that everyone's supposed to have them basics like this already... Mobile phones and tabs are all trackable gadgets - alot of people that still don't wanna improvise have likely not fallen a victim yet, but that doesn't mean it ain't happening... All the terrible news and every-day happenings should atleast scare you into protecting your wallets with all cost.
haven't they all learnt that their gadgets could download and install a malware/ virus, programed to convey needed informations about Thier locals banks?? Talkmore of crypto wallets?

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

[odunybiz]

It's really wrong to save vital information on your phone such as;
 * Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

I would suggest that we save all our important information in writing in our jotter or dairy, because a written than words is always longer than the memory.

You are right but God forbid, what happens if their is a fire outbreak where this jotter or dairy is been kept. I think keeping it in a personal mail is more secured and safer.

I think this should be the best in my opinion:

👉👉Creat a personal mail.
👉👉Save any documents you want.
👉👉Memorize the mail and it's password
👉👉Log out the mail from phone
👉👉You can as write the email and it's password in a personal jotter or dairy(optional, just as a plan B for people that forget things easily)

This is what I do for years and it's has been very helpful. With this my personal information can never be trace with my phone.

[puloweh555]

There is an application on GooglePlay that allows you to track your phone's whereabouts in case it was stolen or lost and you have the option to destroy all the data in that phone so the holder will not use all the information of your stolen phone, this is just in case you put some of the valuable information like your private keys, the phone is never a good place to store your password private keys or whatever, unless your phone is in your vault and you only use to retrieve important information.

Yes. Mobile apps for tracking or remote wiping sound helpful if your phone gets nabbed, but I don't think they're enough to shield sensitive stuff like private keys from prying eyes.  Hackers have all kinds of tricks to scan a phone's memory without even connecting to the internet. I think the best way to protect your private data on your phone is to use a strong password and encrypt everything.

I lost my smartphone a few years ago, but at that time I didn't have important data like seed phrases and other things related to personal assets. Using the smartphone tracking feature is very useful, we can track the last location of our smartphone. We can decide to reset via factory reset email and everything on the smartphone starting from PDF files, gallery, data etc. can be deleted remotely. For me, this feature is actually very helpful in protecting our important data so that it cannot be accessed by the inventor of our smartphone.

However, it would be better, before saving important data such as seed phrases on a cellphone, we need to write it down on paper and save it somewhere else, so that we have alternative storage besides a smartphone. Smartphones are now very sophisticated, as long as we are smart about looking after them and creating strong and difficult passwords.

[OcTradism]

Store your sensitive information offline is best.

Store your sensitive information on phones, laptops, desktop computers are risky because they are used as online devices. With mobile devices like phones, laptops, you have more risk, losing it when you are hanging around.

You can use phones, laptops, desktop computers to store your sensitive information like private keys, wallet seed if you use those devices as off-line air-gap devices.

Security and Privacy Encyclopedia.

[Pandu Geddon]

It's really wrong to save vital information on your phone such as;
 * Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

I would suggest that we save all our important information in writing in our jotter or dairy, because a written than words is always longer than the memory.

It's not safe, but people do it probably for reasons of ease of access. Security wise it's not good, especially on a smartphone that you also use for social activities. that's because on social media many people share unclear links. Whether you intentionally or accidentally click on a link, it can have bad consequences.

If you want to store it on a smartphone, I suggest it is not the same device you use for your activities every day. So make your device special for storing anything related to stock exchanges or other personal information. and also don't download too many applications from unknown sources.

[LogitechMouse]

* Login password on your browser or on your mobile apps: have you ever imagined if your phone got stolen or lost and it fell into the wrong hands, and how disastrous it might be to you? It's a very wrong move which should be avoided by all cost

Being aware on the place where you at. That will help you. If you're in a city, and you're in a public place, chances of you getting robbed is pretty much higher compare to when you're in a province, and the amount of people are low. TBH, I saved some of my passwords in my phone because it's very tedious to always put the password every time I log in on whatever account I want to log in. I can't imagine my phone being stolen because I will never let it happen.

* saving your Secret phase on your phone: if you are ever concerned about your on security, then this one should be avoided by all means, because it's just like when you save you login banking details on your phone, in such senario, if your phone is being compromised and it fell into the wrong hand, then you will surely pay dearly for your actions.

One of the worst things an investor can do. Saving their seed phrase or private keys in their phone, or even in their computer.
Why save those types of information on your phone when you can just write it, and store it.

[Pi-network314159]

You have spoken well fellow. We really need to be careful the way we keep our password/pass phrase to avoid being hacked by scammers. Most of the cases of stolen coin in different wallet is as a result of misplacement of pass phrase. And we are told that not your key not your coin and that is absolutely true because if they should get down to your account do to your insecurity you will know the implications of no being security conscious.

Another thing also is that we need to have different wallets for safety porpos. Because of al your coin is kept in one wallet and paraventure something happen to it expecially when you have a huge amount of money in it, you will definitely have yourself to be blamed.

[hugeblack]

Not only that, but keeping it unencrypted adds additional risks. If anyone is able to access your computer, whether a friend or a hacker, he or she will be able to access your data.

Keep all your passwords encrypted and add a second layer of protection with an airgapped phone specially designed to protect your important data.
Keep several encrypted copies on a USB in a safe place.
Do not download random applications or connect to unknown WiFi APs.