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Absolutely. It is such a disgrace to open society that we have allowed our phones, computers and cars to be so taken over by corporate interest that we cannot even peek inside.

NB I heard some infosec research companies actually get rooted phones from Apple with some big caveats.

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That's why Android is far safer. No exploits there.

This is what the free market chose. People bought these devices en masse and continue to do so.

It’s on us - the end user.

there‘s no better alternative.

no, please don‘t tell me about android. that‘s a fucked up mine field altogether.

we need to remember that there is no and will never be 100% security. while not open — which is worth nothing to the average user — we get pretty close with ios given all we know.

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