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Originally Posted by Kay of Houston
Im not a very IT person so can someone give me some advice on the google voice. I have a personal phone and my business phone. I can discard my work phone in one second but I keep my personal phone for close friends and family.
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Originally Posted by CamilleFox69
How about utilizing the app "Hushed"? Can anyone comment on that? Camille
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Two excellent questions, as they are presented as questions about the applications themselves.
The reason that questions about Google Voice or other software, like Hushed, constantly comes up is that folks are thinking about having a second phone number, or having software on a phone, that can be used for discretion or to hide stuff. These products are fine, perhaps excellent for what they do. I know folks that have multiple phone numbers coming into a handheld for real world stuff.
However, as this is a hobby board, I'll turn it back into the hobby thing anyway. And, apologies for length but the point that I, jframe2, and others are trying to make is that a "hobby" phone, which definition includes some folks work phones, should be disposable. And, that GV, Hushed, some other software, or whatever, simply do nothing for a couple common issues that completely support having a separate phone (disposable) for hobby use.
First, if a badge takes the phone, GV, Hushed, some other software, or whatever, simply does not matter. Badges have a professional IT/communications guy on staff/on call 24/365 and these guy get to play with taxpayer funded equipment that can copy the data from a phone in seconds. Ignoring that the badge is going to obtain your real world ID regardless, do you want them to also know all your family phone #s, or whatever else is in the contacts and recent history? And note that these guys do have access to any and all telco phone records if they so wish. And rather quickly, if they have a reason. Yes, they will know where the phone was acquired, yes they will know if a phone line is call-forwarded to another phone line. Yes they will obtain phone history. So how can you disclaim that the phone is actually yours?
Second, if the badge has your hobby/work phone, and is going to keep it few a few days, what are you going to do if that's the only phone you happen to have? Unless you've a fantastic memory, who are you going to call? And are you going to use the doughnut station phone to call a friend? Seriously?
For brevity, I’m leaving out all sorts of other reasons, as both of the two items just mentioned, I think, just themselves, validate having a separate disposable. Or perhaps a couple disposables.
I’ll admit perhaps one exception: Someone that has no road trips whatsoever and only visits with longstanding, or very well screened friends (and I hesitated about putting in the well screened bit).
Last, note that the jelly doughnut sampling crew now also likes to spill grape jelly into/onto whatever laptops, notepads, etc. that happen to be on hand as well.
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