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it is the same as having an all powerful application with saved credentials on your 90's PC, protected by a BIOS password. All fine and convenient until it is
by gcbw2 9y ago
it is the same as having an all powerful application with saved credentials on your 90's PC, protected by a BIOS password.
All fine and convenient until it is compromised by some other application.
- gruez 9y agoiOS has a sandbox. my 90s PC doesn't.
- fooker 9y agoJVM?
- ams6110 9y agoIt's not iOS that has the sandbox it's the iPhone hardware. The encryption key management is performed in a hardware sandbox. iOS and apps running on the phone cannot access it. I think that's the gist of it anyway. I'm too frugal for an iPhone so I haven't read up on it in detail.
- ggg9990 9y agoiPhones are perfect for the frugal. They are usable and get security updates for about 5 years rather than the ~2 of most Android devices.
- bnjms 9y agoThey also have a model in size small that doesn't skimp on camera quality. I'll be trying a switch when my phone finally dies.
- Symbiote 9y agoThe Sony Xperia Compact phones are also small but still powerful. I'm not sure why only Apple and Sony make decent, smaller phones.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoBut the android phones are from 5% of the price and up to about 85% without being locked to a particular network. So you pay your money for an iPhone and get Pegasus malware anyway ... or get a far cheaper device and use reasonable, sensible, security practices (no 3rd party, don't view unexpected payloads, etc.) and get a similar level of probability of infection.
- saagarjha 9y ago> no 3rd party, don't view unexpected payloads, etc. I take it you don't browse the web or use apps at all?
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoYes, but that's the same in the Apple world. There seems no reason to believe mainstream apps are less vulnerable on Apple's or Google's app store. Nor that Firefox, say, is less likely to be exploited on one or the other. Though granted the underlying OS might be more vulnerable once FF had been exploited. The homogeneity of Apple surely makes a greater target though, which I'd expect to balance it out. Presumably you and the GP have done prior to the frugality claim - like people who don't just install any old shit get exploited in a financially more costly way on Android.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoiPhone SE is the model for you. Top quality, small form, half price. Best value / £ on the market when it came out. However: It’s dated now, almost two years, so keep an eye out for a potential successor. If they don’t release a successor, then they played their cards very well and roped tons of us into their system with a too-good-to-be-true model. There’s probably a name for this play in economy text books :p
- fooker 9y agoWhy is it automatically better to do this on hardware?
- saagarjha 9y agoBecause it cannot be tampered with without modifying the hardware. There's no "hack" that could compromise it.
- lederhosen 9y agoIf the hardware is done correctly, and used correctly. Previous Secure Enclave on iphones did not work even though Apple and its user said it was secure. Why trust them now?
- lern_too_spel 9y agoMy 90s PC ran Linux, which had the exact same sandboxing that iOS has, with a slightly different API. If you run each application with a different uid, you get the same result.
- space_fountain 9y agoNot quite. You actually have proper hardware security with Apple's implementation. Assuming no flaw is found in the silicon it doesn't mater what's going on on the CPU