Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
by hsbauauvhabzb on Monday April 18, 2022 @09:14PM
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Attack surface reduction is the important part. I’m not in disagreement with what you said, but if you took a modern iPhone and removed all capabilities other than sending and receiving phone calls, it would be much more secure than one which supports mms, email, browsing, etc.
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Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
by kmeisthax on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:02PM
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Are you sure having a phone in your phone is a good idea? Phone calls are a significant source of attacks now, even if none of those attacks exploit a vulnerability in the phone software. As far as I'm concerned, the only point in having a dial-able phone number is to ensure I'm still eligible for car warranty scams and 2FA code harvesting attacks.
Re:UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
by hsbauauvhabzb on Monday April 18, 2022 @11:43PM
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You’re right, my point was surface reduction, not that one tech is more or less vulnerable than others