I too remember using a rotary telephone.

loll yea we’ll all get right on that

This is actually a lot more sane than you might think, and quite doable. There's no reason any critical data needs to reside on your phone, you can have it all on a different computer or cloud or somewhere safe.

Seeing the fact that every government, company, and criminal seem(s) to be highly motivated to exfiltrate data from your phone, perhaps it's one of the less safe places to store PII/critical data in the first place. (And that's before considering that it's highly portable and can simply be lost. )

If the critical data isn't on your phone in the first place, then you can't lose it.

But since your phone has network access, and as long as you have a decent data plan, your data need only be one tap away anyway.

You don’t use email on your phone?

Not having personal data to begin with should be common knowledge.

Yeah, be completely generic, an everyman (person?)

Yeah, a blob if you will.

are you serious? What do you think a phone is for, just phone calls?

Portable network access device. ;-)

But the article says that the cred from the phone were used to access dropbox, so the phone should only be used while logged out, clearly.

scrolling memes