When they knew that you have IT/CS majors:

Others: "Can you hack my GF/BF facebook account?"
Me: 🙄

Every single time! 😑

Also fix phones/laptops/printers or develop a "cool new app idea" they have.

Though people always have special interest in hacking 🤔 I want to become a security specialist so I can tell them "I can, but you can't afford it." and watch them all cower in fear of me 😈

"Why doesn't my TV work?"

I don't think I've *ever* being asked to hack a social media account.

What kind of people are you hanging out with?!

I don't think I've *ever* being asked to hack a social media account.

What kind of people are you hanging out with?!

@platypus what makes it even worse is the GF/BF part. Sounds really like relationships based on trust and understanding xD

My answer is always "Yes, yes I can." And smile. That usually makes them stop.

My partner's mum asked me to retrieve something from her phone. All I ever did before was being patient with her and help with changing some basic settings so now I'm the IT person for everything, instead of my partner (who never helped her with computers anyway)...

So, I told her I can't do that, if it's not it some kind of trash (some phone galleries have those, hers did but it wasn't there)... Maybe if she sent it to someone, the file is still there.

That was a mistake.

She has both Telegram and WhatsApp. I forgot WhatsApp is based on Signal, so it doesn't store anything on the server.
So I used trick from telegram - delete storage for that user so it will reload the media... WhatsApp told me it will clear the media for that user, it cleared whole history. And then I remembered it's based on Signal, so it won't download any history because it doesn't store one.

I think I won't be asked to fix anything anymore. 😅

@haze but... but WhatsApp isn’t based on signal, as far as I know

@Prutser Sorry, *Uses Signal protocol. Now it's correct.
What I meant, it's really end-to-end encrypted and not stored anywhere (even encrypted with the key only known by the device).

As opposed to Telegram, which I already cleared for her like that.

I mainly use Telegram, so I know its quirks. I also use pure Signal - but I have it as my default messaging app, so it's like normal texting.