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Help What are these information's and privacy?

Neither Serial Number nor IMEI allows the phone to be hacked, either separately or together. They may be of interest to scammers, and as I mentioned could indirectly have consequences for you (e.g. if this results in your IMEI being blacklisted), but there is no magic backdoor where someone who knows your true name IMEI can take control of you your phone.

Of course if someone had access to your carrier's systems and knows your IMEI they could monitor your approximate location (the phone uses the IMEI to identify itself to the carrier when it connects - this is how a phone can be blacklisted). But that's like saying that if someone has access to your carrier's systems they can see who you call and when, who you send SMS to: of course they can, because all of that comes through their systems. But that's nothing to do with hacking your phone. If you are worried about that, making sure your Google account is secure is the most important thing, because that's the easiest way for anyone to get into your phone.

Phone remote administration by company

When you want to use a work phone for personal usage, that may or may not be your best option. Did your company actually give you that previous Note 10? Or do they indeed own it and want it back after all your old data has been transferred to the new phone?
If it is still their property, and all their phones to have some kind of remote management installed on them, it's not a matter of your company 'spying' on your personal life, they own the phone and if they want to make sure staff use them just for work purposes that's not unreasonable. If that old phone is now yours though, than ask the IT department to release that phone from their remote management control.

Galaxy m31s serious display problem

Hello every one, 2 days before i noticed a line on my m31s. I have done nothing in my phone not even charging. Just i wake up at morning i see lines through my display. Actually the out side of the screen not even had a scratch. Some thing happened on the inside of my screen and i dont know why.And today the lines had developed into pink and black colours on bottom of display. It is manufacturing defect. Phone is only 25 days old. What can i do. If i go to service centre will they replace my phone? What will be the reason for this and what parts of phone needs to be replaced for this. Please help....
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weird code (Source Code?)

How do you ascertain that? It seems to lie in a legacy address range, where it has been since before Google existed, and I can't myself see any link to Google.

That said, the original poster seems to have left the forum, so this is definitely a dead thread.

At my work, I noticed that my computer was using 8.8.8.8 as a dns resolver, this stuff is controlled by the highly effective and knowledgeable IT dept (sarcasm not accidental), I ducked+ 8.8.8.8 and dns, and it said it was Google's public dns server.

English to English dictionary app with scanning

Google always leads me to translation apps when I search - sifted through several pages of hits. I am looking for an app for both iOS and Android that will let a student scan an English word with the camera from a mobile phone and get an English definition. It must stay English to English! Any help here? Everything I have found with scanning abilities does translation - that is cheating!

Gomoku game

Another update.
  1. Added private online game rooms functionality.
  2. Added ability to watch active online multiplayer games.
  3. Added ability to customize the UI - change background, foreground, gameboard, stone and other minor things colors.
For the next step, I am planning to add Renju rules.

Weird occurrence

Do you share any accounts? Because the most likely reason for something like that is because one of you has an account on the other phone.

If you look at these extra contacts you should be able to see what account they are associated with. That would be the first thing I'd check, what is different about them.

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