... to put it bluntly, how stupid people are.
I was at lunch today at Panera, which is fairly crowded at noon. So as I am sitting enjoying my meat free lunch (my mom would be proud I remembered it is Friday) when the woman at the next table over is on a call with her Doctor's Office. She proveded them with her full name, date of birth, social security number, current address and phone number. I was astounded. Had a been an unscrupulous person, I could have put all that information into my phone, and she would have never known, because it appeared I was just surfing on mine.
When her phone call was over, I quietly went over to her to tell her what I heard, and that next time she makes a call of that nature she might want to wait to do it in her car, or somewhere the general public couldn't hear her. She got on me for being rude and eavsdropping on her conversation.
There has been a ton of stories in the news lately about how to protect yourself, while using the convenience of your smart phone. Mine is now password protected in case I forget it somewhere, no one can get into it. I never use the "free" wifi. I never access my banking, or any other sensitive information on it. I only download apps that I know are from a reliable institution (weather channel, foxnews, etc...) and I NEVER ever talk on the phone in public. If I recieve or need to make a call, I excuse myself and go somewhere private.
How in this day and age of identity theft can people continue to do stuff like this to put themselves at risk? Then they cry bloddy murder when someone steals their identity.
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