That 'VOICEMAIL ANXIETY'

 

WHO loves VOICEMAILS?  NOT me, NOT these days. Factually, VOICEMAILS were like my 'oxygen' at work many donkey years ago.  Every morning, WHEN I stepped into my office, first things first after my room's 'intelligent functions' [lights, AC, laptop startup, etc] have their SOD [start of day] stuff.  And YES, during those routine startups, I'll get into my Cisco phone and very patiently, retrieve and play VOICEMAILs. Oh, That 'VOICEMAIL ANXIETY'📗📙📘

In today's world, WHEN we think of protecting ourselves from hackers a number of obvious things will creep into our minds.  LIKE we know the dangers [APOLOGIES I'll tag it as more a danger than just a risk] of using public WIFIs, weak password, and having poor firewall security.  We also know better than to click on suspicious links OR mount random USB drives that we happen to find lying around😃😃😃

Hell, some of us might even take Xtra precautionary measures like using a VPN tunnel, 2FA [2-factor authentication if available] and even reaching out to our mobile phone providers/carriers for other security hardening measures like putting in protocols in place to prevent 'SIM JACKING'.  Let's face it though.  With all our smart devices, social media accounts, and IOT [the INTERNET of THINGS], there are just endless avenues a hacker can take if they really want to try and hack us, God forbid🙏🙏🙏

Very factual, we certainly CAN'T just spend all day long worrying about everywhere we might end up as vulnerable and for the most part, we DON'T have to.  We tend to rest our heads on the shoulders of the big tech giants in Google, Amazon, Meta's FB, Verizon and the like.   At the end of the food chain, there we are, still clinging in to VOICEMAILs?  Without unduly raising apprehensions and fears, even the brightest tech companies often overlook things that can leave us with our pants down, so to peak💧💧💧

Our takeaway:  You might retort back like 'JOKES ON YOU MY FRIEND, I DIDN'T EVEN SETUP MY VOICEMAIL ON MY PHONE'.  On that note, EVEN IF you DIDN'T, it DOESN'T mean that you DON'T have a voicemail  because most cellular providers automatically provision a voicemail and IF you DIDN'T set it up, you are likely even MORE vulnerable.  Hold your breath.  NO ONE can stop now those hackers to setup your VOICEMAIL [you're right, hackers can tap on that freeware 'PhoneInfoga' as they rummage through and extract your valuable info [both from your active and even inactive number].  End of story:  I will leave things up to you as I DON'T want to drive you scared by now💥💥💥