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Re:Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPh... by ccakes on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:49PM (#44203827)
Not really. A random app I download from Github Releases can easily ship my ~/.ssh/id_rsa off to some server and I'd never be wiser. That's very hard to do on a phone.

They're not the same thing and treating them as if they are is somewhat naive.

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Re:Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPh... by protimewaster on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:40PM (#44204255)
I think the point is that even that threat hasn't rendered MacBooks to be widely deemed insecure or untrustworthy. So, if the threat of similar insecurities were to show up on phones (which is debatable since AFAIK both iOS and Android have substantially different security models compared to traditional desktop OS apps), why would phones suffer a different fate than laptops or desktops?
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