Comment by BlackLotus89

8 years ago

How do you define attack surface? I trust my personal computer more than my phone.

My personal computer runs an open source bios (coreboot) with an open source operating system (linux) and no closed source software (at least one of my PCs does). My phone on the other hand has many processors running on it (that I know about) that can interact with my device without me knowing and binary blobs (yes even with lineageos and with microg) that I can't control and many parts I can't update or update as fast/easy as my pc.

My point: for most people the attack surface of the smartphone is far larger than the attack surface of the PC