I wonder if other brands have received the same scrutiny. I suspect not. In which case probably a lot of mobile phones are not safe. The only saving grace is that we don't hold them up to our heads to use them as telephones much any more.
We all have had, but in the past. it isn't feasible now.
I mean, you can buy "safe" smartphone, but first you can't prove beyond reasonable doubt that it is actually safe and private, and second, you attract more attention because the same phones are being bough by the criminals.
Not for "security" but rather for surveillance. The problem is the phones are too secure for governments to get the surveillance they want out of them.
This sort of overemphasized paranoia about security is something which makes me, I dunno, irritated. If you decide to go to extreme, everything is unsafe but you don't want an old device even as a secondary device?
I'd rather work on my paranoia than on getting a fully secured device.
By the way, I am writing this on a mobile with 2 GB RAM and running Android 9 as my other mobile got broken.
I can't imagine that anyone worldwide was going to buy their first and only smartphone, but decided to spend more to get a special high-security black phone, and is then without a phone because of this. And even if they were, I'd rate the safety of even one user who'd accidentally click through the warnings and make a call that should have been secure but wasn't, as paramount.
If my smoke/heat/etc detector starts to fails I don't want it silently dropping back to a smoke-only detector. I want it to start beeping loudly and refuse to stop.
> If the user is informed they have a non genuine device that is not safe or secure
Having to flash a new OS onto it is an appropriately sized clickthrough for a warning of that magnitude. Like being woken in the night to change a smoke-detector battery.
My concern is that the phone could be compromised. Having a phone hacked would be bad enough without giving the attacker the option to easily hospitalize/kill you.
Right and that's the issue... why is this needed in the first place? There's no additional security, it just prevents DIY types from repairing their own phone, as they don't want to buy a $500 tool.
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