To elaborate more: Google could be doing more for Android security (and so could Apple!), but it’s not really possible to match Apple here without also controlling the whole stack, software and hardware…which is just a different business model.
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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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That's the task I'm using this tweetfight to procrastinate from!
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