Re:Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spywar...
by hamilyon2 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:56AM
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You are implying that phone models for top officials are chosen at random.
Better diversity would also mean more choices, which mean some devices are more tailored to needs of a certain type of consumers, like business and government ones. They get less gifs to send, but have their software developed by paranoid people and "do not leak any secrets ever", and "no rce" are their first and only sprint goals.
So basically, now choice is between bad alternative and the even worse one.
Asking for more choices is an important proposition, I'd say
Re:Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spywar...
by est31 on Sunday January 30, 2022 @12:30AM
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It gets different when you are talking about denial of service attacks. Imagine everyone drove cars from the same brand, and one day a hacker discovers a way to make them all stop. Then society is shut down. If 20% of cars stopped working, it's still a major catastrophy but you can work around it somehow.
If you have robot armies or something it gets even more dangerous to put all your eggs into one vendor basket.
Similarly if there are 5 sophisticated attackers after your secrets, some may have cracked your phone security, but not others. If you use more different phone OSes you increase the chance that more attackers have exploits for at least some of your phones.
Also using more phone types complicates training, increases the work you must do checking for vulnerabilities, diluting your efforts.