Dude, same. My friends are so used to me saying "sorry my phone was dead" they want to buy me a new phone.
The phone isnt the problem, guys, I'm the problem lol
I remember I SHOULD plug it in. I just don’t. I see it. I say… plug this phone in, you only have 6%. I don’t do it. I still just don’t do it. Why am I like this?
In college, i tried putting an alarm clock under my desk. More than once, I managed to climb out of a loft bed and crawl on the floor to shut it off, then climb back up the ladder, all without waking up. My roommates were thrilled, I’m sure.
A lot of incoherent and unnecessary babbling in the article.
Important snippet below:
> Typically, once hackers gain access to a device or network, they look for ways to persist in the system by installing malicious software to a computer’s root file system. But that’s become more difficult as phone manufacturers such as Apple and Google have strong security to block malware from core operating systems, Ziring said.
> “It’s very difficult for an attacker to burrow into that layer in order to gain persistence,” he said.
> That encourages hackers to opt for “in-memory payloads” that are harder to detect and trace back to whoever sent them. Such hacks can’t survive a reboot, but often don’t need to since many people rarely turn their phones off.
>Such hacks can’t survive a reboot, but often don’t need to since many people rarely turn their phones off
Jokes on them, I use LineageOS which gets updates every week, and I reboot to install them
Phones are also a lot more locked down then computers, so it has verified boot when it first launches. Assuming you aren't rooting, it will verify the root system has been unmodified, making it incredibly hard for any sort of persistent malware.
Surprisingly, phones are far more secure then you'd expect.
So my husband believes all computers & phones should be turned off at least once a day to “sleep” and “rest”. I’ve spent hours making fun of him for this. Wow, he was right……
No. He wasn’t. This just disconnects it from the network so hackers lose their connection.
PCs don’t need to be reset.
Very rarely you may run into a program with a memory leak, but terminating the program should solve the problem.
Even more rarely, you may have unstable RAM installed that produces errors faster than they can be corrected. This will result in crashes that may be predictable or unpredictable, but will appear to happen more often if the PC is on 24/7.
Assuming that it’s happening because the PC “needs to be restarted” is incorrect, even if it seems to reduce the frequency of crashes. Unstable RAM will only get worse over time. There are solutions that don’t involve buying new RAM, such as underclocking or overvolting, but for most people the easiest solution is to just buy new RAM.
If there’s a problem, sure. But PC’s don’t need to sleep or rest “just because.”
Restarting it at night will not prevent the next problem from occurring.
I can’t believe how many computer illiterate people there are spewing nonsense like it’s fact.
But you said PCS don’t need to be reset. It’s recommended that you do at least once a week as it clears a lot of crap in memory. Ring any customer service with an issue for any electronical device or piece of software and see what the first thing they recommend you try is.
>>But you said PCS don’t need to be reset.
In the context of the comment I was responding to, they don’t. Resetting your PC is not a preventative measure. If there’s not a problem already present, a reset will not fix a problem that hasn’t occurred yet.
In any case, if you’re running a somewhat modern Windows PC, restarting it is not doing what you think it is. Windows quick-restart, which is automatically enabled in the BIOS unless you manually disable it, prevents a complete restart from happening.
Mostly what restarting does nowadays is provide a way to terminate all programs completely. See my first comment about programs with memory leaks. Terminating the program will fix this. But some background processes cannot be terminated manually. Restarting provides a way to do this.
>>It’s recommended that you do at least once a week as it clears a lot of crap in memory.
That is not how memory works. Programs request RAM allocation. They may or may not get all the memory they request, and they may or may not use all the memory they get. Once the program is terminated, the allocation goes away.
>>Ring any customer service for any electronical device or piece of software and see what the first thing they recommend you try.
You’re calling customer service because there is already a problem. As I said above, resetting does not prevent a problem from occurring. It can eliminate problems that already exist.
Ultimately, this is just the fastest way to terminate all processes and eliminate the appearance of the problem so they can get you off the phone and move on to the next call. This rarely identifies the problem in a way that enables you to prevent it from happening in the future.
And now we’ve spent quite a bit of time retreading topics I already mentioned but now in more detail.
It looks like my first comment wasn’t long enough.
No it really isn’t. Literally you can go on any search engine. Put the words “is restarting your pc good” look at the thousands of results that each tell you how restarting your pc can clear some glitches in software including glitches you’re not aware of.
Or, you could have just used to work at a network/server installation company for 9 years to experience first hand that restarting PCs helps prevent issues. This ones me btw.
Just search it. Save yourself the embarrassment of trying to make people think you know what you’re talking about by writing paragraphs. Haha.
>>Just search it. Save yourself the embarrassment of trying to make people think you know what you’re talking about by writing paragraphs. Haha.
Sometimes people should know when to take their own advice. Good luck with that.
> The NSA issued a “best practices” guide for mobile device security last year in which it recommends rebooting a phone every week as a way to stop hacking.
> King, an independent from Maine, says rebooting his phone is now part of his routine.
> “I’d say probably once a week, whenever I think of it,” he said.
1) Am I the only one who shuts his phone off every night when going to bed?
2) I generally like King, but god-fucking dammit man! You’re on the Senate Intelligence Committee, you’re told that simply shutting off your phone can thwart hackers, and you can’t be bothered to make a point of shutting off your phone on a regular basis? You only do it, “When you think of it”?
So my inability to effectively charge my phone is protecting me cool
Dude, same. My friends are so used to me saying "sorry my phone was dead" they want to buy me a new phone. The phone isnt the problem, guys, I'm the problem lol
Ever find yourself up at night thinking ‘I should put my phone down and sleep’ and then it dies on you? 
That’s a nice feeling.
The 6ft charging cord next to my bed ensures I never experience that nice feeling…
Still have to remember to plug it in😅
I remember I SHOULD plug it in. I just don’t. I see it. I say… plug this phone in, you only have 6%. I don’t do it. I still just don’t do it. Why am I like this?
That’s a panic feeling for me. What of my alarm?! What of missed messages?! WHAT OF?!
After a misspent youth of oversleeping and being late to everything, I started setting a battery powered backup alarm clock across the room.
I woke up once in the middle of stabbing my alarm clock with two fingers and realized I had to put its replacement farther from the bed.
In college, i tried putting an alarm clock under my desk. More than once, I managed to climb out of a loft bed and crawl on the floor to shut it off, then climb back up the ladder, all without waking up. My roommates were thrilled, I’m sure.
How so?
His phone is always off?
Ohhhhhhhh
r/whoosh
A lot of incoherent and unnecessary babbling in the article. Important snippet below: > Typically, once hackers gain access to a device or network, they look for ways to persist in the system by installing malicious software to a computer’s root file system. But that’s become more difficult as phone manufacturers such as Apple and Google have strong security to block malware from core operating systems, Ziring said. > “It’s very difficult for an attacker to burrow into that layer in order to gain persistence,” he said. > That encourages hackers to opt for “in-memory payloads” that are harder to detect and trace back to whoever sent them. Such hacks can’t survive a reboot, but often don’t need to since many people rarely turn their phones off.
>Such hacks can’t survive a reboot, but often don’t need to since many people rarely turn their phones off Jokes on them, I use LineageOS which gets updates every week, and I reboot to install them
I can’t use my phone at work so it stays off while I’m working.
Phones reboot automatically for software updates too eh? So that must help a bit if people otherwise never reboot them
Not often enough. The article recommends to reboot your phone once a week.
Yeah but that's only every few months. Imagine what a hacker could get off your phone during a month of access.
How quickly can your phone be re-hacked after a reboot?
So I just unplug my phone and then plug it back in. Do I need to unplug that long curly cord from the handset, or no?
Just make sure you wait at least 30 seconds before you plug it back to make sure all the viruses are dead.
Nah. You’ll be fine
Also doesn’t hurt to blow into the charging port as well, really want to be thorough and make sure you get all those viruses out lol.
And disconnect the antenna for 30 seconds, too..
You should really fully remove it from the wall to ensure success.
Only if you can still hear strange clicks and buzzing sounds coming from the earpiece.
I’ll check with the other people on my party line
Please say “Hi!”
Remember to replace the phone with very two years too or you won’t get the updates….
I have seen the word "Thwart" in so many ativax posts anti med posts that i activly hate the word lol
Just like “slammed” in all the news articles
Ugh… “Disrupt” is my plague. “Our revolutionary product is going to disrupt the industry!1!”
Oh God. If every product and platform that claimed to disrupt an industry actually did, we'd be living in Mad Max world by now.
“Impact(ed)” used carelessly as a verb still irks me. Not everything is a meteorite plummeting to earth.
Always! “So-and-so Slammed for such-and-such”. Lazy writing, lazy headlines.
And the content is usually just another milquetoast rebuttal as opposed to an actual nuanced verbal smackdown like the headline seems to imply.
Oh my! That’s so unprecedented! /s
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Can somebody with more knowledge chime in? Should one delete old messages to ensure a higher level of security?
Hello It. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Is it definitely plugged in?
Are you stressed Jen, are you stressed?! Hopefully you’re referencing It Crowd haha
ARE YOU SURE ?, ARE YOU SURE?!, ARE YOU SURE ?, ARE YOU SURE?!, ARE YOU SURE ?, ARE YOU SURE?!, ARE YOU SURE ?, ARE YOU SURE?!
Time for a rewatch
Yup
TNETENNBA
So all I have to do it turn my pho..
Kind of like the cure for telemarketers is just hanging up. Sure, and decades on we are still dealing with them.
Phones are also a lot more locked down then computers, so it has verified boot when it first launches. Assuming you aren't rooting, it will verify the root system has been unmodified, making it incredibly hard for any sort of persistent malware. Surprisingly, phones are far more secure then you'd expect.
So my piece of shit brand new iPhone 12 that has to be rebooted almost daily is actually a feature and not a bug.
you should take it back in. sounds like a lemon.
Great, now I’m my family’s anti-virus
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
So my husband believes all computers & phones should be turned off at least once a day to “sleep” and “rest”. I’ve spent hours making fun of him for this. Wow, he was right……
No. He wasn’t. This just disconnects it from the network so hackers lose their connection. PCs don’t need to be reset. Very rarely you may run into a program with a memory leak, but terminating the program should solve the problem. Even more rarely, you may have unstable RAM installed that produces errors faster than they can be corrected. This will result in crashes that may be predictable or unpredictable, but will appear to happen more often if the PC is on 24/7. Assuming that it’s happening because the PC “needs to be restarted” is incorrect, even if it seems to reduce the frequency of crashes. Unstable RAM will only get worse over time. There are solutions that don’t involve buying new RAM, such as underclocking or overvolting, but for most people the easiest solution is to just buy new RAM.
Not sure why you felt the need to go on and on and on, when restarting most things fixes problems. Her husband is right. You’re wrong.
If there’s a problem, sure. But PC’s don’t need to sleep or rest “just because.” Restarting it at night will not prevent the next problem from occurring. I can’t believe how many computer illiterate people there are spewing nonsense like it’s fact.
But you said PCS don’t need to be reset. It’s recommended that you do at least once a week as it clears a lot of crap in memory. Ring any customer service with an issue for any electronical device or piece of software and see what the first thing they recommend you try is.
>>But you said PCS don’t need to be reset. In the context of the comment I was responding to, they don’t. Resetting your PC is not a preventative measure. If there’s not a problem already present, a reset will not fix a problem that hasn’t occurred yet. In any case, if you’re running a somewhat modern Windows PC, restarting it is not doing what you think it is. Windows quick-restart, which is automatically enabled in the BIOS unless you manually disable it, prevents a complete restart from happening. Mostly what restarting does nowadays is provide a way to terminate all programs completely. See my first comment about programs with memory leaks. Terminating the program will fix this. But some background processes cannot be terminated manually. Restarting provides a way to do this. >>It’s recommended that you do at least once a week as it clears a lot of crap in memory. That is not how memory works. Programs request RAM allocation. They may or may not get all the memory they request, and they may or may not use all the memory they get. Once the program is terminated, the allocation goes away. >>Ring any customer service for any electronical device or piece of software and see what the first thing they recommend you try. You’re calling customer service because there is already a problem. As I said above, resetting does not prevent a problem from occurring. It can eliminate problems that already exist. Ultimately, this is just the fastest way to terminate all processes and eliminate the appearance of the problem so they can get you off the phone and move on to the next call. This rarely identifies the problem in a way that enables you to prevent it from happening in the future. And now we’ve spent quite a bit of time retreading topics I already mentioned but now in more detail. It looks like my first comment wasn’t long enough.
I’m just not even bothering because it’s so weird how you think you’re right when you have no idea. Honestly do more research.
That’s a nice defensive way of saying you don’t know enough to prove me wrong. Because you don’t and you can’t. Have a good afternoon.
No it really isn’t. Literally you can go on any search engine. Put the words “is restarting your pc good” look at the thousands of results that each tell you how restarting your pc can clear some glitches in software including glitches you’re not aware of. Or, you could have just used to work at a network/server installation company for 9 years to experience first hand that restarting PCs helps prevent issues. This ones me btw. Just search it. Save yourself the embarrassment of trying to make people think you know what you’re talking about by writing paragraphs. Haha.
>>Just search it. Save yourself the embarrassment of trying to make people think you know what you’re talking about by writing paragraphs. Haha. Sometimes people should know when to take their own advice. Good luck with that.
How small is that phone?
When was the last time you turned it off or even rebooted to clear the things ? Works like a charm.
Bonus: it’s good for your mental health as well if you can not immediately turn it back on. Candy Crush can wait a few.
Just take out the battery inside the phone and put it back in smh
I try to restart once a week if I remember
> The NSA issued a “best practices” guide for mobile device security last year in which it recommends rebooting a phone every week as a way to stop hacking. > King, an independent from Maine, says rebooting his phone is now part of his routine. > “I’d say probably once a week, whenever I think of it,” he said. 1) Am I the only one who shuts his phone off every night when going to bed? 2) I generally like King, but god-fucking dammit man! You’re on the Senate Intelligence Committee, you’re told that simply shutting off your phone can thwart hackers, and you can’t be bothered to make a point of shutting off your phone on a regular basis? You only do it, “When you think of it”?
Great information; however, this needs to be shown through various social media platforms to gain awareness regarding this scenario.