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Your iphone just got less secure - so don't use iphones anymore. It always amazes me when people get on their high horse and start complaining about something
by at-fates-hands 11y ago
Your iphone just got less secure - so don't use iphones anymore.
It always amazes me when people get on their high horse and start complaining about something when the remedy is quite simple - don't use the iphone. Get an Android phone, or an Ubuntu phone, or a Blackphone or a Windows phone. There's plenty of other devices that haven't been cracked by the FBI.
There's irony in the fact Apple resisted the FBI attempts to crack the phone and now this vulnerability will go unpatched and the FBI now has a zero-day exploit they can use whenever they want.
- gambiting 11y agoI don't believe even for a second that Android devices are any more secure than iPhones. And I use an android phone. But let's be honest - with dozens of manufacturers there isn't a single one who dedicated the same amount of work to securing their devices or engineering things like the secure enclave in iPhones. I use a Sony phone but I'm sure Sony wouldn't have the guts to stand up to FBI, or that FBI would even need to ask - the hardware is most definitely not on the same level of polish as Apple's.
- at-fates-hands 11y agoApparently Windows Mobile is getting some attention for being quite secure: Windows Phone security is top notch, says Kaspersky - http://betanews.com/2015/06/11/windows-phone-security-is-top-notch-says-kaspersky/ http://betanews.com/2015/06/11/windows-phone-security-is-top... Microsoft may have the most secure smartphone OS in Windows Phone - http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-may-have-the-most-secure-smartphone-os-in-windows-phone http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-may-have-the-most-secur... Windows Phone is the most secure mobile OS says white hat hacker - http://www.techworm.net/2015/11/windows-phone-is-the-most-secure-mobile-platform.html http://www.techworm.net/2015/11/windows-phone-is-the-most-se...
- neximo4 11y agoHi! do you have contact details/email I can reach you on?
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- unethical_ban 11y agoI just found out the other day that if you use any "Accessibility features" on an android phone, your device's encryption password changes to a default, effectively disabling encryption until you turn those features off again. Furthermore, it's not immediately clear that you're disabling encryption when you do that. So all in all, and for other reasons listed, I believe iPhone is probably the better bet at the moment for secure hardware.