Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day ago
I spent quite some time in mobile security and I won’t use an Android device knowing what I know.
I spent some time knowing about business practices and user-hostile design and I’ll never use an apple device. And I’ll definitely never give apple another penny, fucking fake assholes.
I’d like to caveat that this is not a denial that google is horrible, their os is just the only reliable alternative to a Linux phone atm
I think you’re doing the tech tribalism thing here whereas I’m talking about actual device security.
I get it’s popular to hate Apple. Cool. You’re cool for hating Apple.
Anyone who is genuinely interested in mobile security ought to read some of the white papers or device analysis’ which are available to the public.
Anyways, cool, hate Apple but for some reason give Google a pass.
On the contrary. Someone posted evidence showing apple bullshit is not secure and yet here you are saying it’s a fact and that any denial of that would undoubtedly be rooted in some baseless fanboy shit. K.
What evidence are you referring to?
As far as I can tell my anecdote about my professional experience is the only context here besides the post.
Thanks for at least speaking the truth to these drones. I think there is a certain type of tech fanboy that doesn’t actually have any technical knowledge, but likes to spout off. They have difficulty accepting that actually iOS is more secure than almost every Android phone aside from GrapheneOS.
Lol like anyone here gives a shit that you fancy yourself knowledgeable
I don’t downvote you because I like one side or the other, I do it because of what you write: Hefty claims with zero substance behind.
Care to share more?
Rather than speak from my expertise which will be refuted, go look at what mobile research says.
Watch conference demos, look at cellebrited claims from 2026.
I’m parroting what is known in the wider security community, it just doesn’t conform with what enthusiasts think.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Literally the opposite…
timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-company-says-it-ca…
Israel doesn’t want the IDF able to hide/leak anything about the ongoing genocide, so they’re making everyone use the phone that they can spy on.
Like, Israel says it’s for safety but they’ve been committing an open genocide for two years now, why they fuck is anyone taking their word?
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
Do you have any credentials at all here or are you just gonna keep reposting a six year old article about Cellebrite and a long since patched vulnerability. If you knew anything about this space, you’d at least try to post the latest info on which phones Cellebrite can hack. As for iOS, here is what I can find…they cannot hack phones running the latest version: iPhone Cellebrite Hack.
For Android phones, Pixels can be easily hacked, unless you’re running GrapheneOS: Pixel Vulnerabilities to Cellebrite Hacks. Non-Pixel Android phones are likely even more vulnerable given that few manufacturers even try as hard as Google to secure their phones and do as much to keep their phones on the latest Android version.
As someone with a career in tech, I concur with the original commenter. On the whole, Android is not a secure OS unless you run Graphene OS. If you care about security, I would choose Graphene OS, iOS, and then everything else.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Op is pretending you didn’t write this lol
SARGE@startrek.website 1 day ago
… You know why.