I got this message from one Pastor Sam K. Mensah flying around in one of the groups I belong to on whatsapp and it has been generating serious debate. I decided to bring it here for You guys to read and tell me what you think.


DOES IT MAKE SENSE?

"THE PASSWORD ON YOUR PHONE"
URGENT PLEASE READ

Today, technology and modernization has made it in such a way that every one want his/her privacy. The word "trust" is even questionable and no more trusted by people. There is password on almost everything from phone to everything we can, just to protect our information and keep our privacy. But what sense does it make when keeping a password on our phone send us or another to the grave instead of saving life? What then are we "securing"?.

Three friends had an accident in a car and became unconscious. A stranger got to the scene and wanted to call for help. He had no phone. There were six mobile phones in the accident car but all had password on them. They all died as a result.

A pregnant lady collapsed at home with her little daughter(a minor). The little girl had no idea of what was happening but saw her mother gasping for air. She picked her mother's phone to call her daddy but there was a password on the phone. By grace, her big brother left his phone on his bed while going to school and she called the father and her mother was saved because her brother had no password on his phone else the pregnant woman would have lost her life. Whose fault would that have been?

An armed men came to rob a family. The second child happen to be in a little room which the armed men thought it was a store room and never entered. He had no phone but his sister's phone was on charge in his room. He tried to call for help but there was password on his sister's phone. They raped and killed them leaving only the little one. He saw everything through the key hole. Police station and military barracks were closer. He knew numbers he could call for help but "password" was on the sister's phone.

A young man died with so much wealth in an unknown bank. The information was on his phone. No one could access the information because there is password on the phone.

My advice is this. You are too precious than the information you are securing on your phone. Only put password on your whatsapp, text messages, facebook, files, etc and leave the call side free. You may one day save your life or the life of your loved ones. The password on your phone can be your death warrant. Think twice.



With this one will be in a dilemma. Having a password in your phone can help you when your phone is lost. Especially as the thief can't have access to your details. Phones these days have even upgraded to reading finger print.

To me I believe to avoid something like this is to use the contact details of your loved one as screen saver or lock screen picture in case of emergency. But then, what happens when the phones needs to be open for a call to be made?
Another issue is security in cars. What if there is an emergency and and you can't drive the car beyond a certain point due to security and the person with the password isn't available?

Guys what do you think? is it okay to use password, pattern or pin for a phone? Especially when emergency can come up?

Cc: lalasticlala, mynd44

It depends

Security is never bad. It's good.

There should be a level where it should reach. However one can't be too careful in the country

Behankey:
Security is never bad. It's good.

In the context above, what happens when there's an emergency and this same security is hindering calls from being made to save a life?

People lock their phones for all sorts of reasons, good ones tbh and I feel the finger print sensor especially the ones on phones like the L9 and Camon Cx is a good thing . they could try all the fingers if there's time

You actually raised salient points.
Just put a password your device and hope those scenarios you painted don't happen to you or loved ones.

It's a matter of choice

saxby:


In the context above, what happens when there's an emergency and this same security is hindering calls from being made to save a life?

Fingerprint reader comes in handy for situations like this.

dejiWEST:
People lock their phones for all sorts of reasons, good ones tbh and I feel the finger print sensor especially the ones on phones like the L9 and Camon Cx is a good thing . they could try all the fingers if there's time

Its not about testing all the fingers. Like one of the examples sited above was where a child was hiding somewhere but couldn't make a phone because of pin abi na password, do you expect the child to run and test all the fingers?


Even where is lalasticlala when you need him? Though I know snakes done have fingers to press passwords and pattern, at least others can send in their input if you send to fp

Dandsome:
It depends

On what?

When you have a roommate like mine you'll be forced to Use every available security on your phone. Lol...you need to see his face when i got my Camon Cx and he saw that it came with a fingerprint reader.

This Op self. Na car Talk be this? My friend take it to the phone section.
Puskin, dragnet, marpol, mynd44, and uncle lalasticlala come and catch dis Op. He wants to deceive us. He has join badt Gang.

Meanwhile, na who password help? We have been using it since D tym of Nokia torchlight. Na Hu d tin finally epp?


Modified : Mods, the OP has modified it. I guess it's worthy of Frontpage now.

What dost thou think @ Seun and lalasticlala?

Security is good, particularly to prevent theft, but it shouldn't be stretched.