Comment by shuckles
1 day ago
The smartphone platform is the most secure by default personal computer most people own, largely because of the control enforced by Apple.
1 day ago
The smartphone platform is the most secure by default personal computer most people own, largely because of the control enforced by Apple.
If we are saying "secure", we should talk about what we are securing and against whom.
A smartphone may be secure against malicious individual actors but its certainly not the most secure when it comes to your private data. Modern day smartphone is designed to maximize capturing your private information like location, communication patterns, activity and (sometimes) health information and pass it on to as many private players(a.k.a apps) as possible, even to governments without your knowledge. You don't have much control over it.
In that aspect it is less secure than your typical PC. A PC doesn't have that level of private information in the first place and whatever information it has will leak only if you opt-in or get infected by malware.(recent Windows versions without necessary tweaks may be considered a malware by some).
Plenty of people access their health records, etc. on a PC via files downloaded to random places on their computer. Are you trying to just say smartphones have a lot of sensors and are carried around in intimate places?
But along with that also comes a massive pressure point for rogue states to take advantage of. With a diversity of services this would not be nearly as possible.
Secure for Apple, not for the users.