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Although the amount of bad punctuation and emoticons might shift this into shitpost territory.
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The only way to make a digital device 100% secure is by using a hammer.
I was told by a professor that launching it into the sun is the only way to make sure.
The only true secure way is to go back in time and stop the device from ever being created so no.one thinks to go back in time to stop you from throwing it into the sun. You may have to kill yourself though as you will be the only person who is aware of a phone that could have existed, if we are working with branching timeline theory.
Itβll take months to get something to the sun. Better to bring the sun to it and vaporize it with Oxy Acetylene
Even that might not do it, if you don't make sure you get the SSD chips (or spinny disks depending on what the device is)
Even then, it's possible that there may be small embedded circuits inside the camera with the sole purpose of constantly recording and sending that data who knows where.
You know, if you want to go full tinfoil hat.
Oh yeah, absolutely true.
Wonder if microwaving a device would be an easy way to make sure all the data storage is truly dead? Well, short of completely pulverizing it anyhow
Like any other computer
@LodeMike isn't a mobile phone supposed to be safer than a computer ??π€π€π€
Yes but there's always bugs and some of those bugs lead to privilege escalation. Phones mostly just remove the "user clicked yes on the root access prompt" attack. And other attack surface reductions.
mobile phones yes, smartphones (android, iOS) no. They are riddled with backdoors.
@DmMacniel and what are those backdoors ??π€π€
Can't we shut them down ??π€π€π€
Ask CIA and other Secret Agencies :)
Depends on the computer.
Quite the opposite. Every single text message you send inside the j ited stayes is saved by both the us and the chinese government. This is why you have to use signal.
Also, if you connect to a stingray device then no hope of privacy
Nothing is 100% secure.
I hate what popular culture has done with our perception of hacking. Hacking almost always involves social engineering as a means to open a backdoor into a system: you trick the end user into for instance giving up login credentials or installing a program that "phones home" to a command and control center. You'll have to research the details on your own, but depending on what information has been "phoned home" or in other ways acquired by the adversary (login credentials, IP address, hardware and software identifiers, etc.), the adversary can then deploy further tools that either exploit known programmatic vulnerabilities or that elevate the adversary's privileges on the target system, with the goal of attaining enough control to do whatever the objective was in the first place (gathering PII, bank info, leaking private media, distortion, what have you...).
Android is great at a very specific task, which is to isolate processes into something I can't seem to recall right now... Maybe "zygotes"? Basically it gives the user granular control over interprocess communication. It also effectively reduces attack surface by isolating infection/damage.
On Windows, for instance, programs are allowed to elevate their own privileges - for the convenience of the end user, I suppose - which is of course INSANE, considering that the greater Windows user base probably don't have the cyber hygiene required to operate safely within those premises.
I'm too sleepy to go on, but "google" and read: hacking, backdoor, exploit, social engineering, privilege elevation
If it unlocks with a simple pattern, if you use a unlock code that someone can guess, and so on.
Or did you mean remotely?