> There are some alternatives that are absolutely more secure Probably, but silent circle isn’t one of them. Silent circle is just a generic Chinese android ph

> There are some alternatives that are absolutely more secure Probably, but silent circle isn’t one of them. Silent circle is just a generic Chinese android phone without carrier bloatware. Instead, they ship a bunch of their own bloatware. They haven’t really made any fundamental improvements to security over what you can get with any other rootable android phone. iOS has a generally much stronger hardware security model than Android, although it’s not perfect either, especially given that it’s closed source and not auditable. I’m hopeful that Purism’s librem 5 cell phone will represent a substantive improvement in smartphone security. Runs standard Linux, isolated baseband, hardware kill switches, etc.