You see the boat in the photos? You see how it’s got a flat bottom, and a ramp that can be lowered? It is literally designed to land on beaches and offload cargo. No Pier needed

Surprised they use real phones for this, I would think VMs and VPNs would be the most scalable.

War… War never changes.

He has a point.

Or… By not supporting a genocide with weapons and money.

I’m pretty sure all the upvotes are coming from the same person’s sock puppet accounts. Just like in this thread they are talking to themselves with the different sock puppets

Does this mean your also against yubikeys?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/tpm/tpm-fundamentals

Devices that incorporate a TPM can create cryptographic keys and encrypt them, so that the keys can only be decrypted by the TPM. This process, often called “wrapping” or “binding” a key, can help protect the key from disclosure.

This is how cell phones and windows hello justify short pins, the pin goes into a rate limited TPM that then discloses a larger key to decrypt the actual secret.

The device you’re thinking of has 42 decibels of sound. You should be aware of that, I don’t think it’s actually fanless

Noise is going to be a huge factor for your home lab, so make sure you look at the data sheet for whatever you’re about to buy and check what it’s rated noise level is

Qubes is immune to the knife to the throat threat model?

TPM in the SOC to transform the “convenient” pin into more robust encryption keys is the gold standard for civilian devices.

“computers” (of which a phone very much is) also use a TPM for this very reason.

But even taking what you say as gospel, the device isn’t insecure, its how people are using it.

I will stand by my comments a phone is the MOST secure device a civilian will use. Even with a secured desktop computer where someone diligently types in a 64 bit random code to unencrypt the hard drive… if they use the computer as a general purpose device, the threat surface raises dramatically. Now information and programs are not compartmentalized, install one bad program and it can trivially take over everything.

Please help me understand your point of view. So far all you have said in this conversation is that other people are wrong. That may be, but your not helping us understand you

I think phones are the MOST secure devices most people have. They are locked down, they run software in very restricted containers, they have more restrictive feature allowance. for 99% of the people the phone is the most secure device, full stop.

Can you do better on a computer? Sure, but it takes a bunch of work and isn’t the out of box experience

You can use two factor, fingerprint plus pin and have the pin layout randomize each time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4kuIQBkHiw

The hardware driver updates are absolutely critical if you want to have a secure phone. The phone has to be within the support window, to get any hardware driver updates. The risk surface of a phone’s hardware is huge, you’ve got the Bluetooth drivers, you’ve got the Wi-Fi drivers, you’ve got the modem drivers, and any other sensors I may have forgotten about.

Could you explain how phones are insecure by design?

I’m sorry you went through that lived experience, but if that’s the first piece of information somebody learns about you, it’s going to put you at a disadvantage to building strong relationships.

It’s just very general, if somebody hears you being negative about somebody who was in your life, people are going to be guarded about introducing you into their lives. So it makes it harder to win friends, and influence people. Not that it can’t be done, you’re just doing it with a disadvantage

I’m pretty sure this person was just looking for a reason to sue, and then tried to construct the most salacious situation to sue about.

I’m not against them suing, I think web tracking is evil, so more power to them, but I definitely feel like a lawyer helped architect the actual complaint

Depends on your friends threat model, lineage will work on it.

No security updates makes the Pixel 4a a bold choice for your main phone. I don’t recommend it

I would follow the graphene OS recommended phone guide, that gives you maximum flexibility to put any operating system you want on the phone.