Do you (or anyone you know) have a fear (or I guess you can call this a paranoia) that people who are living with you, are snooping on your phones/computers/storage devices/journals/etc? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I mean like people like parents/siblings/spouses/significant others/kids/roomates/housemates...

I mean, I have paranoia about other things too (such as germaphobia/mysophobia), but specifically on this issue of people snooping, is amongst one of my top fears, and I'm just curious if other have this similar fear/paranoia.

Like every time I wake up, I wonder if my parents or brother put some malware/spyware on my phone because they think its a funny prank or whatever.

Every time I enter my PIN for my phone, I always cover the screen before entering it in case my parents have cameras in the house. And even more so in public, I'd fear CCTV getting my PIN.

[No, I have not been diagnosed with schizophrenia, I don't hallucinate or anything like that. (But I do have a diagnosis of depression.)]

[This is distinct from the common fears of government surveillance or whatever. That, strangely enough, I fear much less, since I'm just one in hundreds of millions of people that they would care about, so I'm not so worried about that.]

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This won't help you on the tech stuff but one technique I use at work is to set "traps". Very simple things like placing a tiny piece of paper in a place where it will fall if a door is opened. A piece of tape or thread works too. I'll take a picture for reference

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Do you take the picture because you don’t trust your memory?

I’ll remind you that these traps depend on someone being less inclined toward perceiving that clandestine game than you. Which, if they’re sneaking in to do something wrong, is probably false.

The only way that trap would work is if they’re underestimating your cunning.

I can see how taking a reference photo might detect if they replace the paper sloppily. But if I were them, sneaking in to do something dastardly to your stuff, I would take my own reference photo before opening that door, to evaluate my replacement of the paper and ensure it matches the original state.

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