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You can do a lot more damage with someone's bank account than you can by exploding their phone.
by sam0x17 5y ago
You can do a lot more damage with someone's bank account than you can by exploding their phone.
- hsbauauvhabzb 5y agoWon’t matter much if it burns your house down while you’re inside. A complete compromise can also get access to your bank, mail accounts, message history, mic and camera. Which vulnerability would you prefer be used against you?
- bnjemian 5y agoI'd marry mic access, F#$% camera access, and kill bank access. Maybe that's just a personal opinion, though.
- saagarjha 5y agoDepends on where the phone is at the time. Do it while they’re on a call and it’s going to really suck.
- midasuni 5y agoCurrently holding my phone, with a full charge. Basically a hand grenade, about 12” from my face, with (thanks to oversized phones), both hands on it. At best id be blind and unable to use my hands. I don’t give a stuff about my bank account compared with that.
- kube-system 5y agoThere are no explosives in a phone though. Lithium batteries might burn when short circuited... however, this requires physically damaging the battery, or shorting the circuitry. This requires some seriously silly hardware vulnerabilities (lithium cell protection is typically implemented in dedicated silicon), not simply a software vulnerability. And if you could successfully perform an exploit like this, you would probably drop the phone before it hurt you. https://youtu.be/osfgkFyq7lA?t=246 https://youtu.be/osfgkFyq7lA?t=246