Recently, “Backup Tofu” has suddenly become a high-profile highlight in current affairs news. This type of product is actually very convenient. In addition to not having to turn on the computer, if you don’t want to spend money on cloud backup subscriptions, you can use Backup Tofu. Back up all the photos, address book and other files in mobile phones and tablets to free up space in mobile devices. Can you back up someone else’s phone? Can others connect to my mobile phone privately to export data?
Read other people’s data from “Backup Tofu”?Two or three things you must know
Backup tofu is mainly to provide users with local backup functions that do not need to be connected to an external computer or to the cloud. You only need to install a MicroSD card on it and add it to the original charging transformer. If it has been set, you can directly charge it. Back up at the time. To understand the problem of the title, we need to understand some basic knowledge about products such as “backup tofu”. The following author uses a list of statements to make it clearer.
- Must be paired with a dedicated app
Of course, it’s not as soon as you get it, you can plug it in and you can start the backup immediately. Various manufacturers have launched exclusive applications for their products. Not only backup tofu, but also some portable SSDs that can provide backup functions. it’s the same. Conversely, if you simply plug your phone into someone else’s backup tofu, trust me, nothing will happen. You can neither check the other party’s backed up data nor take the initiative to back up the tofu. Your cell phone information.
- Permission must be granted
When you use Backup Tofu for the first time, you must grant it permission to access photo albums, address books, etc., so that it can truly have the pass to access and backup in the phone files, otherwise it is just a charging transformer at all (Some are not even a transformer, just an adapter).
- Security lock can be set
Can others directly pull out the Micro SD card or use a mobile phone connected to it to read the data I backed up in it? In response to the increasing emphasis of modern people on information security and privacy, various manufacturers will also have corresponding protection mechanisms. For example, the Qubii Duo, which has caused heated discussions in the news, uses a memory card lock mechanism, as long as it is set in the application. , No one else can access your MicroSD card on other devices. The OneModern S8 fingerprint encryption SSD that we introduced not long ago uses fingerprint encryption and password unlocking to protect data.
To summarize briefly, if someone wants to secretly back up data from your phone, he must perform the following steps to do it:
- Unlock your phone first
- Install exclusive apps on your phone
- Grant access
The first level can actually block many people first. Unless you are intimate with the other party and he knows your phone password, it will be very difficult to unlock your phone when you are not present. Moreover, if you are an iPhone user, you must perform a Face ID verification before installing the application on your phone before downloading and installing, so the difficulty in this paragraph is increased.
If you attach great importance to personal privacy, or there are often some stored in your mobile phone, when selecting and buying such products, you should not only be greedy for cheap, but put its security protection mechanism as the first consideration; when you use it for the first time Be sure to set up the security mechanism in the application first, and don’t open the door of privacy that you regard as a treasure for convenience or think that no one will move.