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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
submitted 5 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Chozo@fedia.io 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope you get more chances to do so; you explained the situation in a much better way than the article and convinced me to reboot my phone.

[โ€“] SeekPie@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You restart your phone because of security.

I 'restart' my phone, because it's overheated and lost its battery % to 0.

We're not the same.