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In order to argue that, you have to list your goals, what you want to do with your phone, and the goals of an attacker. On Android, other than a few minor incon
by Elyra 4y ago
In order to argue that, you have to list your goals, what you want to do with your phone, and the goals of an attacker. On Android, other than a few minor inconveniences, I can still achieve everything I want to with my phone, where an attacker will have a difficult time achieving their goal, of presumably stealing some data from another app.
This is compared to PureOS where you may have free reign, but so would an attacker if you install their app on your device. If you used QubesOS I'd argue that restricts the user a similar amount as Android does, not to mention missing out on a number of mobile friendly apps.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoThat's fair! It's quite likely that at least some of the issue is precisely that I view Android devices as just another form of general-purpose computer, and I expect to be able to run them like any other computer; if I want to download a picture from a browser, recompress and convert it to another format, and then move it to a syncthing folder and sync it off to another machine, I expect the system to make that happen, without getting in my way at every single step. But really, the file moving issue surprised me precisely because I kind of understand that lots of people expect their phone to be terribly limited, but this was a step beyond what made sense even for that usecase.