It means that most people consider privacy questions legitimate. My questions are not out of the ordinary (as many have agreed). Who said anyone is scared of privacy? This thread is to help me and others understand what I am giving up in terms of privacy on WP8 as compared to other OS'es and why. I understand certain amounts of privacy are going to be lost, I just want to understand how much and whether I should stick with my other smartphone.
Aye, I agree, it isnt out of the ordinary. But the mere fact that half of mobile users avoid certain apps due to privacy concerns does not mean that their concerns are valid.
That was all I was trying to underline.
Well you're certainly not helping anyone one this thread. Your posts mainly consist of complaining that I asked questions that you don't like. If you don't like that I asked a question you're welcome to move on to another thread where you can provide answers...instead of complaints.
The fact here really is that you interpret my replies as being hostile, which they are not. I have not complained a single time in this entire thread. I generally dont complain. But feel free to share what you did interpret as complaining.
I get the feeling that you got a hostile vibe from replies in the thread, and my replies then seemed to you as hostile and/or complaining, merely due to your state of mind. Or perhaps just how I write doesnt translate well to you due to cultural differences.
I replid, for instance, theories about what certain permissions for certain apps could entail. Since youre asking on a public forum and not to developers directly, I assumed you wanted replies that you could work with, discuss with and find a reasonable outcome with in case no direct answers were found.
You might not call that help, and thats fine. Some people eat pears and swear they are apples. But my intention was nevertheless to help.
Uh, that's the whole point of this thread, I'm asking if WP8 is a secure way of doing this. It's called, "fact finding". Please stop crying about it.
How in the name of rabid donkeys is this crying? Im asking wether a non-phone-based solution wouldnt be far more logical to use if the information is really super-sensitive. I wouldnt think that anything top secret was ever put on the private phone of an employee.
This isnt called "fact finding", this is called "asking a random group of people a question and being angry that replies are made". Go to your local mall and yell "HOW DO YOU REMOVE A TUMOR FROM AN EYE?" and try to call that fact finding.
We didnt design the OS, we certainly didnt set the permissions for the apps in question, and not all of us are developers. Fact finding has never been more ill conceived.
What you did is ask a question in a public forum and got replies trying to enlighten/solve/help.
Then you complain that youre not getting the answers you desired.
In 2012 not everything is done in the office anymore. Many businesses use rely on their phones. From my understanding if someone grabbed my phone and made a run for it WP8 allows me to wipe the phone remotely (which is awesome).
Yeah, I was only joking
. And yes, that is a great feature. You can also update the phones lockscreen, iirc, to display your information so that it may be returned to you. AND set up a phonelock even if you didnt have one at the time you lost it.
#1 I have an HTC not a Nokia. Did you even read the post? #2 I have gotten great answers from many people on this thread. Almost everybody else (besides you) have been interested in actually answering my questions, instead of complaining that I've asked. Your responses pretty much boil down to, "Don't ask questions that Slai doesn't like in the forum." My response is: #1 It's not your forum. #2 That's absurd.
Yeah I actually was tired and meant to write Microsoft.
And again; havent complained about your questions, nor that you asked them. None of my responses boil down to that, Ill accept messages from anyone who feels the same way on my inbox thingie, Ill gladly hear you out. If Im wrong, Ill take that to heart, but I feel that you are completely wrong in your assessment here, and I dont really know where it is coming from.
I'm insane for complimenting a developer who documents in detail how his application works? LOL. Apparently, you'd rather trust a developer who doesn't put forth the effort to provide you with the details. Which is more insane? My compliment to him stands as is, he's a good guy from what I can tell.
No, Id say hes probably a nice guy, I believe so. But the fact is that what he writes as reasons for his app permissions can be completely false and made up, and you say that youd download his app.
The insanity lies in the fact that you think its horrible if they dont mention why they need the permissions, but as long as someone gives you a reason that is not verified to be true in any way, and therefore is absolutely 0% safer, youd download it without even thinking about it.
See the point?
You just called me insane for complimenting a guy who does exactly that! LOL! What is wrong with you? If you agree with me, why has every post from you been full of whining and complaining?
None of them have been whining nor complaining at all in my opinion, and certainly never were meant to be viewed as such.
And you HAVE to be able to see the difference between "that adds 0 layers of security" and "id like them to write something, so that paranoid people can feel safer, even though it isnt", right?
I just want to understand how WP8 protects my data from abuse from applications and potentially rogue developers. Seems like a very reasonable question. Why is that a problem?
If you really wanted that information, you had to know that the best source for that information would be Microsoft, not a public forum?