• charlie_root@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    You are putting the chancellor’s iPhone hack at the same level than these script-kiddie or Nigerian scams :)

    scamers usually needs user interaction and it doesn’t go further than asking the user to fill in a form online. no trojan, no malware - especially on iOS.

    I would totally love a free&opensource smartphone with something tight, not androified and which can be reproducible and getting regular audit.

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      3 years ago

      I don’t refer to script kiddies or Nigerian scams, but even a script kiddie have the possibility to hack a phone, as seen in the past. Also several databreaches with hundreds of thousands of sensitive data, including bank and medcal data, which were leaked in the past from Apple, MS, FB and Google, show what I say, mobile phones are far from being secure devices, especially if they are of large companies that look more at their own income than at the security and privacy of the user. At least, I don’t have any important data in my phone and I recommended everyon to do the same. If it is a workphone from you work, it’s different, than the risk is for the company, no yours, because of this, most use the kiosk mode, which with you can connect only to the sites admitted by the company.