If Google wanted to match or outdo Apple in this area, do you think they couldn't do it? They've got people working on human immortality, so the idea that a Google Pixel just can't be made safe because business model is hard for me to grasp.
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Again, you keep taking things out of context. The Google Pixel is safe. Nothing in the paper you linked shows otherwise.
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I'm not trying to suggest that this paper damns that specific phone, though I understand why I've created the impression. Asking now in good faith: if I tell a political campaign manager or journalist to use a Pixel, is this equivalent security to having them use an iPhone?
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1/2 Well, I’m not in infosec, but I would be surprised if attackers go for either a top of the line iPhone or a top of the line Pixel. They’ll go after staffers’ Windows desktops first, or just use phishing.
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They’ll use phishing. Who’s gonna burn an 0day on a first time congressional candidate? ;) Shit, even the dnc and Podesta were just phishing. Phishing scales and it works.
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Thinking about this more, why doesn’t someone lobby blue states to publicly fund IT for Congressional races? It would be a rounding error in the states’ budget (CA has, what, 45 districts?) and would probably be an easy sell politically, given all the concerns around Russia, etc.
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Public financing is the fix for a lot more than campaign IT.
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"It's complicated"
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Btw, have you done any bigger write ups of your experiences advocating better tech for politicians? I know I’m not the only one who’d read that (and recommendations on what we should build differently).
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Strong agree.
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That's the task I'm using this tweetfight to procrastinate from!
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