Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure, but what about security? Not that I haven’t had to use outdated phones before.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Security is not a state but a scale, and is gauged against everything else.

    From the perspective of a privacy / security zealot, a smartphone is SOL as soon as they lave the factory, as not only not even OTA updates keep them safe (and you can argue that with some manufacturers such as Samsung, OTA does is the primary risk vector!) but they can eg.: ship with unfixable vulns at the hardware level that would lead to ditch the whole thing anyway.

    So long as there isn’t something like a state-funded program for citizens to renew their phones every ~2 years for fully open ones, I’d not worry much. After all, the other option would be not using a phone because current ones are a PITA and just as vulnerable from the other end.

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    • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IMHO some update is better than no update at all!

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      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh yeah totally. But while one could argue we are owed security, we are not owed updates. (And when we do, they’re offered to us via “buy another phone”, such is Capitalism).

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