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Encrypt + add PIN + disable SMS/Phone authentication? Is this insufficient?
by wfunction 9y ago
Encrypt + add PIN + disable SMS/Phone authentication? Is this insufficient?
- barking 9y agoThanks but I don't know if it is or not. The steps you mention apart from the last are all to do with protection in case a phone is stolen. I suppose what really concerns me is someone hacking my phone through some kind of malware. If Android is as insecure as some say it is, then is it risky to log in to gmail on any android device ever? What about the Google Pixel range of phones? How do they compare to the iphone. I don't want an iphone if I can help it. I prefer Android to iOS. If fact, a lot people I know who had iphones have been switching over to higher end android devices. But security trumps everything else if it's a question of keeping email secure.
- wfunction 9y agoI'm not sure how you can protect against malware aside from not visiting sketchy sites or downloading shady apps. Pretty much by definition they use security holes, which if people were aware of wouldn't exist in the first place. Only attack vector I can think of is some kind of SMS attack, to which the "solution" would be to disable SMS, if you're really worried about that. Personally I'm not.