MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage too great

Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by eeZah7Ux on Monday October 12, 2020 @08:43AM (#24753807)

This comparison is absurd.

A minority of laptops are thinkpads, a fraction of those have SIM cards, and, finally, attacking that subsystem requires serious skills and the benefits are dubious.

Compare that with android/ios phones, which 99% of people have, and have a large underground market of backdoors that anybody can buy and install. Not to mention all the spyware that users and OEM install.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by wolco2 on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:14AM (#24754043)

It's the difference between finding an expliot for gmail vs finding one for a small discord server. Your attack on gmail has a bigger universe of targets if successful.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by nottorp on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:13AM (#24754508)

Uh, discord is a centralized service. You find an exploit for a "small discord server" you can probably use it on all servers.

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Re:MIVD boss: Meet without a smartphone, risk of espionage t... by eeZah7Ux on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:44AM (#24754256)

Yes, and that's why NSA successfully intercepted google's fiber optic cables and so on.

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