"Access your mobile device here" Windows 11 -- Anyone use it?

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  1. Stevewoods

    Stevewoods Senior Member

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    The message above has started appearing on my Windows 11 desktop. It's legit and all, but feelings out in web land seem mixed.

    Anyone use it? Any opinions?

    Could be handy now and then -- when I leave my phone downstairs and am working on desktop upstairs and a web site demands the code they just sent my phone -- for example.
     
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    I turn that function OFF. I like to keep my devices separated, so if one device gets hit by a virus - it doesn't cascade into my other devices.

    This is one of those convenience functions; so you can pickup where you left off on another device. I used to work on a separate partition on my employer's server or bridge in through my desktop. That way any lost data or corrupted files is their problem - though I did do my own backups of critical files on a portable hard drive. Lost data happened quite a bit; when they hired kids that only knew terminology but couldn't do the job. Don't know if someone on the team screwed something up or there was a break-in. I let them sweat for about a week, before I produced my backups.
    It wasn't my job and IT refused to pay me a stipend when I helped them out, so I stayed in my lane.
     
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    Microsoft = Spyware
    They sell your data to the highest bidder!

    If you don't want to be enslaved/targeted in the future you need: Protonmail, ProtonDrive, Signal app for text and calls, Graphene OS for your phone and a secure Linux OS for computers.

    And don't just believe me... Ask any cyber security expert what type of tools they're allowed to use at work and they'll give you the same answer.