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As always - it depends on your threat model. But frankly, for most cases - iPhone. Might not be the answer you want, and it has neither the purity nor auditabi
by obvsthroway7676 8y ago
As always - it depends on your threat model. But frankly, for most cases - iPhone.
Might not be the answer you want, and it has neither the purity nor auditability of OSS. But sales are down because of pricing model insanity, which is fairly orthogonal to your question, and it's still huge (so you blend in) and from a corporation with incentives generally more aligned towards your security and privacy than most.
So, unless you're doing insane burners and low level hacking to make a more secure device, iPhone is probably the way to go.
- gen3 8y agoI agree with you. Strictly comparing IOS to android, I would say IOS is more secure. Apple is in a position where they are incentivized to give you a secure and private product. They make money off of hardware sales, not ads (They are trying to increase their revenue from services though). They are incentivized to do as much processing on your phone as they can, because it saves server costs. Examples of this would be the facial matching in the camera app (IOS done on phone, android done at Google) and TTS of voicemail (only sent to Apple if you tell it to). There are still dangers though. Apple still has control of your phone through things like updates and the ability to place in a backdoor if they are legally forced to. As far as I know, they have a good reputation though (see San Bernardino iPhone case). If your super paranoid, build your own phone https://www.adafruit.com/category/281 https://www.adafruit.com/category/281