About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by mtgx on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:05PM (#15865445)

I think part of the reason why Google even decided to make its own phones is because of security. If you read about their BeyondCorp enterprise security architecture, it emphasizes smartphone security quite a bit and how devices without timely updates, for instance, will be banned from the network (Google's own internal network that is).

Given how bad most Android OEMs are at keeping their devices up to date, Google didn't have much of a choice, other than relying on iPhones, too, for its internal security.

https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp/

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by Cyberdog on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:43PM (#15866199)

> I think part of the reason why Google even decided to make its own phones is because of security.

Huh. I think the main reason some people (myself included) go out of their way to avoid Google products as much as possible is because of security.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by __jal on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:32PM (#15866504)

Google's security != your security.

I do trust Google to "get security right"[1]. I just don't trust them to secure things I don't want to share with them. Which happens to be a huge percentage of data on and generated by my phone.

[1] In the colloquial sense that people tend to use that phrase.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by 8ytecoder on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:06PM (#15866348)

Do you mean privacy? I don't have issues with Google's handling of security.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by jageen on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @08:54PM (#15866961)

You must read this https://www.hackread.com/google-collects-android-location-da...

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by syrrim on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:23AM (#15868079)

That's privacy (ie google collects your data), not security (some random hacker collects your data).

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by yoz-y on Thursday December 07, 2017 @04:10AM (#15868676)

There is a link albeit not a first order one. If your privacy gets invaded enough, then random third parties will get your data (legally, from google) and then some random hacker will collect it.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by tpush on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:29PM (#15865655)

Why wouldn't they use their Nexuses? They even push the updates out themselves.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by Xorlev on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:47PM (#15865856)

Not everyone has a Nexus or Pixel. It's BYOD except for Corp phones.

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by tpush on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:43PM (#15866200)

I was responding to this: "Given how bad most Android OEMs are at keeping their devices up to date, Google didn't have much of a choice, other than relying on iPhones, too, for its internal security."

My question was why Google would be relying on iPhones when they could just use Nexuses(then) or Pixels(now), since they are pushing their own updates (especially security).

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Re:About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 by shouldgowork on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @07:20PM (#15866434)

Happens at FB (more or less). Employees get ad credits, because it's an incredibly important part of the platform.

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