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Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I'm currently using. The one we can't talk about... He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I'm afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What's your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

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[–] zfr 2 points 3 months ago (20 children)
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online -1 points 3 months ago (9 children)

So you're saying that, in order for me to steal everything on your phone, all I have to do is stand behind you in a supermarket and film you unlock your screen once. Then, on the way to your car, I quickly pull a knife on you and force you to tap your finger on your phone, then I hop on a motorbike and ride away.

Hope you didn't have any banking apps or crypto on your phone, because now that's gone.

QubesOS on a laptop is much much safer.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

They would need to kidnap you to type multiple different passwords. The point is that they can't quickly unlock the device. Mobile phones are literally designed to be easy to unlock.

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