Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure

Post by 13415 » Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 11:33 PM UTC

lern_too_spel wrote: post #52

13415 wrote: post #37

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We know from the Snowden leaks that there were direct data links between Google and the NSA. Despite their vehement denials and public outrage, I still find it hard to believe that it was possible for the NSA to install such massive surveillance without some complicity from Google. Technically this might have been possible without any Google involvement, I agree with that, but given past involvement of other companie…

Nothing in Snowden's leaked documents contradicted Google's statements. The New York Times reported the setup correctly from the start, and the rest of the news media picked up on it shortly thereafter. https://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-... Your understanding of PRISM matches Greenwald's incorrect reporting, which was based on a high school dropout's misreading of some slides he found on the…

Post by colejohnson66 » Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 4:02 AM UTC

lupire wrote: post #49

mikeash wrote: post #34

Nobody’s phone is really that secure... but an iPhone vulnerability costs more than an average Bay Area house, while an Android vulnerability is more like the cost of cleaning that house once. Edit: turns out the figure for an Android vulnerability is off by several orders of magnitude. What a garbage article!

Consider deleting your false statement, now that aaronharnly has posted a correction.

Post by kakarot » Tue, Oct 30, 2018, 8:58 AM UTC

max76 wrote: post #56

leetcrew wrote: post #35

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three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone. i personally love my pixel 2, but they sold about half as many pixels in 2017 as samsung sold phones in a week. [0][1] samsung does give monthly security updates to its flagship products, but it won't support anything for more than two years. i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about up…

> i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about updates when they choose their next phone, The people that do give a shit pick ios. Security and updates was the #1 reason I moved from Android to iOS.