Considering the amount of MFA attached to my phone plus communication access, my phone is a potentially more useful thing to steal than my wallet. Then again I rarely have cash on hand any more.
Laws and enforcing them.
I worked in hospitality for years. It’s tough, thankless, and not paid well. Tip heavy and often!
Good, and the business should compensate the waiters like in rest of the developed world.
Once people stop tipping waiters will quit and businesses will be force to either pay them like regular staff or move to self service.
The person that does the work.
Yes the waiter cooked the food, cleaned the dishes, bussed the dishes, seated the table(politely!), and so on. They did the work.
I worked in a restaurant with tip sharing. The point behind it was, motivation by every step in the chain, for all persons, to do a good job. To compensate for a job well done.
So that even the dishwasher, would take time to endure glasses spotless, to put that little extra touch.
And all were hired, including the waiters, with this understanding.
Which means, you are advocating theft from coworkers!
If this is indicative of how waiters think today, I will be paying by card, and tipping by card.
To ensure a waiter doesn't steal from their coworkers, if tip sharing is a thing.
The actual solution is simply to pay staff a reasonable wage just like every other job. Lucky the solution is simple for customers, defect from the spiraling tip system.
Of course you wouldn't want to have gratuity flow to the lowest paid of the staff, which has the most sweat enducing, filthy, labourish job in the place. They're probably an immigrant too, so screw em, right?
(The above response is due to you singling out the dishwasher, instead of, say, the chef, or everyone).
First, in Canada (unlike the US), everyone is paid a wage. Tipping amounts are different too, as a result.
However, tip sharing is not a new thing. I was part of it in the early 80s, in Canada, and it has nothing to do with the latest "tip me for just doing my job" culture.
Tip sharing properly reflects the wholeness of the job, not just the singularity of the waiting staff.
And while it is reasonable for you to have a different opinion on tip sharing being good or not, this does not change the fact that if you work a job with tip sharing, pocketing tips is theft.
I bet it's OK for all the other waiters to tip share, but then one waiter steal tips from the pool too?
Even with today's "the owner has money, slack off! Steal from them! Work as little as possible!" trend, this is taking money from hard working co-workers!.
It is theft.
People get up in arms about tipping because the numbers have gotten so out of whack. 20% tips being expected completely undermine the basic economics of restaurants which is why they get so focused on tip sharing. The current expectation is to tip just to cover people doing their basic jobs.
Imagine going to a restaurant, getting average service, and then not tipping because everything was average. It’s not about tipping for excellence in the US, it’s about providing basic compensation that not a tip that’s just payment for services rendered.
If you’re sick of paying 20% tips then work to change the law. Don’t take it out on the poor saps just trying to make ends meet.
Tipping is inherently a negative experience and you should treat it as such. So for example any service that operates on tips looses a full star on review sites from me.
Tipping via card is even worse in many places because the manager or operator is just assigning money (or not) as they feel. Again, working spiffed retail sales, you need to track what you’re owed or mistakes will happen.
They may have done the work, but are mostly not paid the money. Wait staff are unqualified and generally paid dirt in expectation that they will receive tips from customers. Kitchen staff are certified/licensed in their trade, paid something more than nothing, and are not expected to earn tips. That is the current reality. A customer trying to force a new reality by not paying cash tips to wait staff will not be appreciated.
1. I’m traveling and I encounter somewhere that doesn’t take cash
2. I’m traveling and I encounter somewhere that declines my card for being foreign
I wait for the day when both coincide and I’m left staring at my food unable to eat it.
It would be interesting to know the portion of people that doesn’t have a wallet anymore and see if it’s growing.
The big downside is that my wallet and everything in it can run out of battery. That's not very redundant. Suddenly I won't be able to pay, identify, call, etc.
Most of the time I just take my phone, but if I’m going in the car or out shopping I take the card holder.
The only time I throw some change in my pocket is if I’m taking the kids somewhere
It didn't take long to realize that configuration was all I need for most outings. Just add my HSA debit card to my pocket and a keyring to my belt with my car key and a couple others, and add a stash of $100 or so hidden in my car and over 99.9% of my outings are covered.
However a photo of my drivers licence is enough, and then it’s just money. A credit card is in my phone case.
I specifically checked whether my phone disables access after many tries, and my phone does not. Phew!
I never got it back but I also realized it was basically a useless brick. Is there any value in stealing an iphone/modern android these days? They are so locked down what's the point?
The only regret I had was I didn't turn on "Find my phone" because I'm so privacy paranoid but at least the password was a much more complex alphanumeric one than most people's plus w/o an icloud backup (pre-2023 before it became encrypted).
The police found caught him in-the-act with a backpack full of stuff from a house down the street so he's certainly getting punished. The funny part is the police saw him before he entered the house but decided it was worth waiting until he left to get proper evidence.
I was home at the time sleeping and so was allegedly the last family he burglarized. Which makes it feel creepier.
Can someone confirm if that is viable?
Certainly I'd imagine all smart-phone parts ranging from the camera modules, batteries, screens and cases are all worth money!
The logic boards might be tied to some sort of security?
I say this, as I use a small back-street phone repair guy who has drawers of various genuine and non-official parts for iPhones, and I've used him to replace smashed screens and camera modules!
It's true that Apple has paired hardware on newer phones, and that combined with Find My has really taken a huge bite out of how many iPhones are stolen, but Shenzhen is Shenzhen.
It is a mecca of technology, and you will find things that we'd generally otherwise consider impossible, like building your own iPhone piece by piece just walking around a market:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFuF-zoVzA
So even if they can't take a given part as-is, they can always find something useful. We'd think "the logic board is paired so it's useless": they'd think "ICs X,Y, and Z on the logic board commonly fail and now we got spares".
There's been more than one case of stolen stuff ending up at the same place in Shenzhen: https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/02/find-my-iphone-app-discovers-...
Say they have an old powered down iphone with an alphanumeric PW (or a temporarily powered-on locked iphone). What's the realistic risk for a run of the mill burglary? You think they can bypass the PW prompts, exploit an up-to-date OS, and decrypt the HD with a vulnerability available to the general public? And local data on my old phone, ie, some photos and some old iMessages on my device are a serious personal/financial risk?
I already changed the (tiny) set of relevant passwords not-2FAd immediately and everything else relevant is 2FA'd. My SIM card was delisted immediately by my telecom after I found out and the phone theft was reported to a national hotline/database, so not sure why I need to "change" my (phone number-only) 2FAs...
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2255800833252942.html?gateway...
I agree a run of the mill burglar wouldn't have the foresight to sit on your phone for years and years, since the value of breaking in probably diminishes almost immediately as you get a new phone, Wallet deactivates, etc. but it's not a reach to imagine that in a few years we'll see the equivalent of the current Cellebrite tech become widely available.
Yeah, it very much is a reach. $100 says it won’t happen, feel free to come back and collect within 5 years if I’m wrong.
To be clear, I believe there are vulnerabilities, just not they are as common or as easy to come by as you claim.
Does "dime a dozen" mean "6-7 figures USD per each on the global exploit market, with a dozen well-known regular buyers"?
That wasn't always the case though and thieves may not realize that.
But otherwise for some reason I didn't consider selling it for parts to one of those tiny cellphone chop-shops. I assumed since it was a valuable iPhone it was ultimately mostly useless to them as a non-operational phone, but I guess $20-100 for parts is more than enough.
Your government and phone company already track you. Turning on 'Find my phone' doesn't really add any more tracking on top, it just allows you to benefit from the tracking, too.
Many people stick their credit card or ID in the back of their iPhone case as well.
I used to when I didn't fully trust Apple Pay, and when ID apps werent fully available.
I avoid SMS 2 factor.