On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 11:07:54 +0100 skin...@britvault.co.uk (Craig R. Skinner) wrote:
> On 2014-09-27 Sat 00:33 AM |, Nick Holland wrote: > > > > I'd LOVE to think Google took security more seriously than other > > dipshits in the computer industry, but sadly, the Android platform did > > not show it. I have an Android phone, I would not trade it for an > > iProduct...but I will never trust it or use it for security critical > > purposes. > > While I don't have a "smart" phone, nor a tablet, is Blackberry worth > considering? I guess not: > > "According to Levison, the F.B.I. agents who came to his house were > surprised that he hadn't seen one of the sets of documents that had been > e-mailed to him demanding Lavabit's information; they pointed to his > phone and said he could look up the information right there. He > responded, 'You know better than I do why I don't have e-mail on my > phone.'" > > "... He doesn't use e-mail on his Android smartphone, for instance, > because neither the software nor the hardware of any commercial phone > can be trusted; carriers and phone makers can push malware onto the > device, he said. Yet his views are far from radical. ..." > > http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-lavabit-melted-down > > http://lavabit.com/ > > Anyone imagining that they actually *own* a telephone is practicing some considerable self delusion. A telephone is a rented service. You don't own any of it. Dhu -- Ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco.
