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Spitbath said: I agree with this sentiment. I have been trying to have less Google in my life by avoiding their products... That includes no longer using Chrome, Gmail, Google Maps, and most importantly, avoiding friendly relationships with And…
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You're just talking in circles and making excuses for the status quo. Carissa Véliz in her book _Privacy is Power_ makes a compelling argument -- that by allowing yourself to be profiled, you also allow your contacts to be profiled. WhatsApp knows …
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That's just wrong. As long as an option isn't enabled by default, the vast majority of users won't enable it. WhatsApp is among the worst messengers from a privacy perspective (see the article I linked). What is your basis for claiming most people …
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jimh2 said: bossbaby said: And the pathetic iMessage still dont have automatic spam filter. I really wish I could install Google message on my iPhone. The most annoying, I kept receiving spam Imessage from random emails. I both have ip…
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iMessage security is highly overrated. It is nowhere are secure as people think it is. In 2016, researchers at Johns Hopkins demonstrated that iMessage messages can be decrypted of they’re intercepted. This is a link to their paper - https://www.use…
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avon b7 said: If you want to share sensitive information, use Signal. For most people though (especially EU residents) Whatsapp is OK for most of us. WhatsApp is garbage. It's end-to-end encryption is largely useless because the app backups…
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I'm honestly wondering why anyone would use iMessage at all. From a privacy perspective, it's a terrible product. The iCloud backups are accessible by Apple. Deal breaker.The iMessage protocol is terribly designed. It's so bad that in 2016, research…
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22july2013 said: Apple's apps are required to have no special privileges, when compared with Apple's competitors, so why do Google's Android vendors get away with it? Sounds like an antitrust violation to me. It’s no such thing. The issue…
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lordjohnwhorfin said: I hate to have to use that POS Firefox, but at least adblock works on it. Why is firefox a pos?
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Quote: Originally Posted by tenly Your opinions are clearly delusional. Glad to see nothing has changed on AI -- anyone who doesn't tout the party line is "delusional" or "a troll." Really mature bunch of commenters, we have here. Quote: Ori…
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Again, could you please quote properly? Quote: Originally Posted by Corrections there is no automatic umbrella of security that prevents your key presses from being sent somewhere. Way to move the goal posts. No device sandbox protects again…
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Ugh, dude, learn to quote properly. Your post doesn't quote properly, so I'll just respond inline: --- DED: "Having a "sandbox" doesn't mean there is any security involved." Uh, that's exactly what a sandbox means. DED: if it has network a…
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Ah, I see it's time for the weekly Android-bashing from Danny boy. How predictable. Additionally, Google's implementation of both widgets and third party keyboards expose significant security vulnerabilities and privacy issues that many end user…
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank It's once you start using it that's when it becomes more insecure. Most people are not going to install Knox, that's just for Enterprise customers and that's a different type of security. I don't know if Kno…
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Quote: Based on that we can make some guesses about who is getting infected by malware: mostly Gingerbread users (now 28.5% of active users) who choose to ignore the warnings from Play Services. Jelly Bean users (now 48.6% of active users) are inhe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by EricTheHalfBee And as I pointed out above (and people seem to want to ignore) is that there are significant differences between the vulnerabilities of GB, ICS and JB. What does Google say about this? How come they on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank So, this threat report from F-Secure is BS? In short, yes. They're reporting on the number of malware apps they found in the wild, not on the number that actually get installed and caused harm. Most sec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Yes, Google wants the fandroids to say that to hide the fact that most of them will never get security patches for their phone. Oh, right, because no one who uses Android is capable of independent though…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro The poster to whom you responded is apparently conveniently ignoring the fact that core OS updates and upgrades are the most important because those updates and upgrades add significant core functionalit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil And 640k ought to be enough for anyone. What? Could you actually respond to my point rather than just make nonsensical posts? And aren't you the one who's been making post after post saying that…