Protecting yourself

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 16:37:40 +0200, Rolf Mantel
wrote:

Am 06.06.2019 um 16:11 schrieb Jeff Liebermann:
On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:03:52 -0000 (UTC), Duane wrote:

But you can’t text without looking at it.

The problem can also be handled with a little social engineering.
Simply raise the price of texting while moving.

Does anybody without a text flat-rate still use texting these days? In
Germany, the costs of texts have driven the young generation to whatsapp
(my son sends hundreds of whatsapps per day and has sent less than 10
texts in his life, to mum who didn't use mobile internet until recently).

Europe has a "caller pays" price structure. The USA has a "recipient
pays" structure where the recipient of the SMS message pays for the
text. The result is that very few people care about cost of sending
an SMS message when they're not the one paying the bill. Also, it's a
great incentive for robocall services, which pay next to nothing to
spew their junk via SMS messages.

However, you're right. Chat apps have largely displaced SMS messages
in the USA, mostly because SMS is crude compared to a typical chat app
and of course, they're free.

My scheme would still work if it prevented the keyboard from working
when the phone is moving. The necessary logic might become rather
complicated, but methinks it can be done.

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