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iPhones in particular require all user code that runs to be signed and run in a sandbox, which makes it much harder to hack. Android also has a sandbox, but is
by ikeboy 10y ago
iPhones in particular require all user code that runs to be signed and run in a sandbox, which makes it much harder to hack.
Android also has a sandbox, but is more permissive about running things outside it: still, by default it's pretty locked down.
Windows is not locked down that way, and most programs will require admin access for installation, at least.
- anonbanker 10y agoRegarding android, the latest Qualcomm debacle (FDE is broken) shows that it's not a very safe platform. Add in the google services that store information unencrypted (which nerfs Signal and other "safe" apps), and you have a owned phone. iPhone's walled garden is, as John Oliver stated, akin to "dancing on the edge of a volcano"; only safe until the next vulnerability arrives. Don't forget that every iOS other than current has been jailbroken/rooted. Thankfully, Windows Phone is a joke that is being phased out, so we don't have to laugh uncomfortably at it anymore.
- ikeboy 10y agoYou're conflating remote vulnerabilities, which is what I referred to above, with local vulnerabilities.