Comment on Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 hours agothey are enforcing the discontinuation of one because they got more spyware into it. they view this as a liability because it means there’s more backdoor holes in it and they don’t want that compromising their officer corps’ operational security. however, they also don’t want an entirely spyware free solution for their officers. their entire system of control is built from the ground up on surveillance and enforcing ideological purity. so they still want to spy on their officers. the iphone has the balance they’re looking for
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
The stuff you say about android checks out and makes sense but the iPhone part doesn’t.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
pay particular attention to the invasive telemetry section. this isn’t by accident. ios promises to respect your privacy in its advertising, and does a better job than stock android, but the fact remains that the company is subservient to the states it partners with, one of which is the United States, which has close ties to israel. if your plan is to use your phone with whatever os it comes with, the iphone is more secure. but for a military force like the IDF, they can dictate and even issue whatever would be the most secure. the fact that they do not means these considerations are seen as a positive
krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
What you’re describing isn’t spyware though.
I’m not dying on this hill because at a point it would just be quibbling over semantics. Your point isn’t wrong - I know there are options built into OSes that can be used to monitor user behaviour - but this isn’t spyware in the same way backdooring shit into android would be
No argument that the end result is pretty similar - but one requires exploits to get some shit on the phone. The other is innate to the OS.
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Not worth the fight… people here will call even usage based telemetry (how many times did this feature get used) spyware.