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Started by Carnivore, April 07, 2016, 02:11:57 PM
Quote from: chilirock on April 09, 2016, 09:44:10 AMQuote from: Carnivore on April 08, 2016, 01:30:30 PMThanks for the additional info, chilirock. May I ask why you wanted to keep your Gmail and home phone number separate, in case there's some downside I didn't think of?I just did not feel comfortable using my primary Gmail account on the ObiTalk portal incase there was some vulnerability or potential to hack that account through the Obi unit or the Obi portal. I treat my primary email account as gold and don't want to use or post those credentials anywhere outside my control. Maybe just overly cautious, but by using a secondary account if it gets hacked, they'll only have my phone-only account info, not phone and my primary email.
Quote from: Carnivore on April 08, 2016, 01:30:30 PMThanks for the additional info, chilirock. May I ask why you wanted to keep your Gmail and home phone number separate, in case there's some downside I didn't think of?
Quote from: Carnivore on April 09, 2016, 10:54:22 AMQuote from: chilirock on April 09, 2016, 09:44:10 AMQuote from: Carnivore on April 08, 2016, 01:30:30 PMThanks for the additional info, chilirock. May I ask why you wanted to keep your Gmail and home phone number separate, in case there's some downside I didn't think of?I just did not feel comfortable using my primary Gmail account on the ObiTalk portal incase there was some vulnerability or potential to hack that account through the Obi unit or the Obi portal. I treat my primary email account as gold and don't want to use or post those credentials anywhere outside my control. Maybe just overly cautious, but by using a secondary account if it gets hacked, they'll only have my phone-only account info, not phone and my primary email.That makes good security sense, but I don't think that would work for me because I frequently use GV to make long distance calls from my Android cell phone. I also use Gmail, Hangouts and other Google services on my Android phone, and all of those services are tied to the same login as part of its Google ecosystem. I don't even know if it's possible to use a secondary Google account on an Android phone for GV calls due its tight integration with your main account, so I'll probably port my home number to my primary Gmail account to avoid complications.I haven't looked into the potential for vulnerabilities/hacks with Obi. Is this something that has already been exploited?
Quote from: Carnivore on April 08, 2016, 01:30:30 PMI also use Gmail, Hangouts and other Google services on my Android phone, and all of those services are tied to the same login as part of its Google ecosystem. I don't even know if it's possible to use a secondary Google account on an Android phone for GV calls due its tight integration with your main account
Quote from: Carnivore on April 10, 2016, 11:40:03 AMI see that it's possible to transfer an existing Google Voice number to another Gmail account. If you do that, can you then create a new GV number on the first account? Or does Google charge a fee, the same as if you did a straightforward number change on the first account?