rayon
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rayon
waifutech enthusiast
12d ago
The tutorial dungeon on Master is... certainly an experience, I wonder if the goblin witch is even beatable by non-bretons. The balance is hilariously retarded on this difficulty, I actually struggled against regular rats/goblins until I picked my class and now a basic summon is outputting like 10x my damage. I actually kind of like how gigajuiced the enemies are but I think I need some mod so Conjuration doesn't completely trivialize the game, I like playing summoners.
Wouldn't mind hearing about builds/ideas/tips for Cyberpunk 2077, btw.
Netrunner battlemage is the funniest shit I've ever played, stealth archering pales in comparison. It's just weak and clunky enough in the beginning that you have to actually use your brain wrinkles and explore what hacking can do (like distraction or remote detonation), and midgame onwards you can straight murder entire packs with contagious/AOE hacks. Peak l33t h4x0r fantasy, especially with how many ways there are to fuck with enemies (blind, disarm, power word: kys, etc).
rayon
waifutech enthusiast
22d ago
I guess his work colleague that I managed to contact via missed call notification did pass the memo - the owner called the phone later in the day from some other number, his friend's probably. He agreed to meet in the evening in the spot where I found the phone, we met up, I asked him to unlock the phone just in case, he did, I handed it over and walked away with a symbolic sum of money for my trouble and a clean conscience. Fin.
He was pleasantly surprised to recover his jacket too when I pointed it out, seems like he didn't even try to retrace his nightly activities or search for his shit at all.
rayon
waifutech enthusiast
22d ago
as I use Samsung I do know the Secure Folder
What is more difficult, is making sure the operating system itself doesn't leak the data; as it necessarily have access to both sides of the fence.
Yeah that's how I imagine the failure mode/drawback of such things, I have a cheap-ish xiaomi phone and the Second Space feature AIUI is essentially a second "desktop"/container you can switch to at will that's running the same OS, and the two are essentially separate installs beyond the basic features. It sounds impressive (and a hassle to set up) so I wonder how it's actually done under the hood and whether the filesystems are somehow separate too without it being obvious.
rayon
waifutech enthusiast
22d ago
Oh that's actually useful advice I haven't thought of that somehow, thanks. The phone is now reunited with its owner regardless and my prediction was right but that's probably the best course of action.
rayon
waifutech enthusiast
22d ago
I'm deathly curious if there's anything I could actually do with it if I wanted to
As I said this particular guy's data holds zero interest to me, ~90% odds this is some random local alcoholic who dropped the phone during some scuffle (a torn jacket hanging off a nearby bush did not fill me with confidence), I'm curious about the methods/tricks in general. Besides, if I didn't "snoop" the missed call notification I would've had literally zero clues towards the actual owner short of putting up posters or something, which definitely sounds like too much effort.
This morning I stumbled on a lost phone while on my way to the wage cage, and decided to do my good deed for the year and return it to its rightful owner. This took some head scratching since the phone was password-locked, no contacts were saved to the SIM, and he hasn't responded to Telegram DMs (suppose the phone which he lost was his only gateway) so the only thread I had was his employer eventually calling the phone at some point and agreeing to pass on the message when the phoneless man eventually clocks in.
This story is unremarkable and secondary to my actual point, which is that I am a nosy curious person by nature and a mysterious password-locked phone is burning a fucking hole in my pocket as it waits for its owner; while I solemnly swear that I am up to some good for a change I admit I'm deathly curious if there's anything I could actually do with it if I wanted to without wiping the entire thing. USB file access is obviously disabled, ADB doesn't see it, and the stock Android screen lock seems to be fairly robust and doesn't let me so much as pull down the notification bar... except not robust enough apparently since I could tap Medical Info and pull it down from that menu just fine (which yielded me the employer's number from the missed call notification).
Eventually I retraced my chain of thought and realized that it also seems prudent to protect my own phone from people like me just in case, I never lost a phone in all the years I had one (in fact I'm pretty paranoid about keeping it around at all times) but it only takes one lapse in vigilance, and I'm not sure if a stock screenlock/password would be enough. In hindsight I feel horrified at how careless I was in never setting at least a basic screenlock in all these years, god knows I have some, ahem, sensitive things saved on my phone. I'm usually not this sloppy with opsec.
TL;DR:
1) Any known neat tricks I can make locked Android phones do to spill some parts of their contents, however miniscule? The above medical info trick really made me feel like a proper fucking h4x0r despite how meager it really was, surely there must be more funny loopholes. Alright I suppose this does kind of glow so this part omitted, I was curious about more mundane tricks, not hardcore blackbagging shit. In any case the phone was happily reunited with its owner, and my burning curiosity has passed.
2) Main question - what is the easiest way to carve out a private space on the phone to store shit in? Optimally it also shouldn't be indexed by the file explorer or show up in various photo/document/file viewers unless accessed through a specific app/feature, although I'm not sure that's possible. Second Space seems like what I'm looking for but I'm not sure how robust it is and how exactly the "split" works technically, if it's simply a separate group of folders I'm not seeing the point. (I consider myself a fairly tech-savvy person but phones aren't my area of expertise)
Aww shit, here we go again... I was really starting to hope it doesn't come back, being free of it for a ~week felt great actually
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