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<p>When a woman named &quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/afronomics_" target="_blank">uninterested hō</a>&quot; on Twitter (probably not her given name) found a <a href="http://www.someecards.com/life/tech/woman-posts-photo-updates-of-beautiful-cruise-taken-by-man-who-stole-her-iphone/">lost iPhone</a>, she learned a lesson about <a href="http://www.someecards.com/parenting/children/kid-fingerprint-lock-hack/">phone security</a> that she decided to share with the world via Twitter to keep us&mdash;and our personal info&mdash;safe. Thank you, uninterested hō!</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3oEduIOpXCpGxagbQY" width="480" height="286" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Basically, she found someone&#39;s iPhone and, in her attempt to return it, realized how quick and easy it is to get someone&#39;s personal information off their phone. With a little <a href="http://www.someecards.com/life/tech/siri-voice-interview-susan-bennett/">help from Siri</a> who, it turns out, is friendly and helpful to <i>anyone, </i>including some rando who has your phone:</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833779390492372992</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>By &quot;cool&quot; she of course means, NOT COOL AT ALL. This is really creepy. We all leave our phones lying around at some point, making it pretty easy for a stranger (or creepy friend) to get all of our personal info.</p><p>Luckily, the finder of this phone used this power for good:</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833779755518423040</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Meanwhile, she figured out just how easy it is to get all of the girl&#39;s personal info, everything from where she lives to where she parked her car. Creepy AF.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780255089364992</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780462967455749</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833781270832373765</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The girl who the iPhone belonged to apparently had no clue her information was so easy to hack.</p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833782347308867585</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Luckily, there&#39;s a way to prevent this by changing your phone&#39;s security settings.</p><p><strong>Here&#39;s what you can do to keep this from happening to you:</strong></p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783023644639232</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>I just did it. Did you?</p><p><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">One more piece of advice from &quot;Uninterested Ho,&quot; who, it turns out, is interested in our safety:</span></p><oembed>https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783229563932672</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Lots of people are thanking UH on Twitter for her helpful tip, as they should:</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thank you for this! I just changed my settings</p>&mdash; Francesca Hogi (@DearFranny) <a href="https://twitter.com/DearFranny/status/833906559927193600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Uninterested hō is the friend we all need and mostly don&#39;t deserve. Unlike you, Siri (jk Siri <a href="http://www.someecards.com/life/tech/ask-siri-to-divide-zero-by-zero-and-shell-throw-some-serious-shade-at-you/">I love you</a> even if you&#39;re a two-faced backstabber sometimes).</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><div><div class="video-correcting-container" style="left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 0px;position: relative;padding-bottom: 56.2493%;"><iframe src="https://giphy.com/embed/3oEduIOpXCpGxagbQY" width="480" height="286" frameborder="0" class="giphy-embed" allowfullscreen style="top: 0px;left: 0px;width: 100%;height: 100%;position: absolute;"></iframe></div></div></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Woman finds lost iPhone and tweets a warning that will make you change your security settings ASAP.

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When a woman named &quot;uninterested hō&quot; on Twitter (probably not her given name) found a lost iPhone, she learned a lesson about phone security that she decided to share with the world via Twitter to keep us&mdash;and our personal info&mdash;safe. Thank you, uninterested hō!Basically, she found someone&#39;s iPhone and, in her attempt to return it, realized how quick and easy it is to get someone&#39;s personal information off their phone. With a little help from Siri who, it turns out, is friendly and helpful to anyone, including some rando who has your phone:https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833779390492372992By &quot;cool&quot; she of course means, NOT COOL AT ALL. This is really creepy. We all leave our phones lying around at some point, making it pretty easy for a stranger (or creepy friend) to get all of our personal info.Luckily, the finder of this phone used this power for good:https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833779755518423040Meanwhile, she figured out just how easy it is to get all of the girl&#39;s personal info, everything from where she lives to where she parked her car. Creepy AF.https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780255089364992https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833780462967455749https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833781270832373765The girl who the iPhone belonged to apparently had no clue her information was so easy to hack.https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833782347308867585Luckily, there&#39;s a way to prevent this by changing your phone&#39;s security settings.Here&#39;s what you can do to keep this from happening to you:https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783023644639232I just did it. Did you?One more piece of advice from &quot;Uninterested Ho,&quot; who, it turns out, is interested in our safety:https://twitter.com/afronomics_/status/833783229563932672Lots of people are thanking UH on Twitter for her helpful tip, as they should:Thank you for this! I just changed my settings&mdash; Francesca Hogi (@DearFranny) February 21, 2017 Uninterested hō is the friend we all need and mostly don&#39;t deserve. Unlike you, Siri (jk Siri I love you even if you&#39;re a two-faced backstabber sometimes).

When a woman named &quot;uninterested hō&quot; on Twitter (probably not her given name) found a lost iPhone, she learned a lesson about phone security that she decided to share with the world via Twitter to keep us&mdash;and our personal...