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Still it needs a phone number to be used, which is a huge privacy vulnerability, also by encouraging to be used on some of the most spyware ridden platforms out
by squarefoot 7y ago
Still it needs a phone number to be used, which is a huge privacy vulnerability, also by encouraging to be used on some of the most spyware ridden platforms out there: a malicious tap/key-logger is much much much easier to hide in a 90% closed source phone than in a FOSS oerating system install on a PC.
FOSS phones hopefully might/will change this, but they're a few months away, and we should also assume most users would rather wait for them to be available than go the easy Android/iOS path.
- bootlooped 7y ago> we should also assume most users would rather wait for them (FOSS phones) to be available than go the easy Android/iOS path Why should we assume that? In my estimation, 99% of people in the world are never going to own a FOSS phone. 99% of people probably don't know what FOSS even means.
- squarefoot 7y agoThat was exactly my point (the average user not caring at all about privacy).