Older, un-updated android phones are not secure. In infosec world, that is more mundane than saying the sky is blue. Reported endlessly!
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Replying to @zeynep
If you don't understand the infosec field, talk to experts before parroting Wikileaks, or making big, sensational claims about it all.
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Replying to @zeynep
Look, device insecurity is real. Lives are at stake. Most common threat is crude phishing. Like this.https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/03/azerbaijan-activists-targeted-by-government-sponsored-cyber-attack/ …
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Replying to @zeynep
So it is damaging to be parroting sensationalist claims & frameworks about perhaps the ONE thing (encryption) that got more widespread.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted FRANCE 24 English
Aargh. If you have an older android phone, forget the CIA, your cousin can sneeze in its direction and get in.https://twitter.com/France24_en/status/840244674698731520 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Anyway, I wrote this after being pinged by many panicked people about Signal etc., misled by careless media & WL.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wikileaks-cia-cache.html …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted CopperheadOS
Yep. Basically, android phones besides Google (pixel, nexus) are sitting ducks. True for CIA, true for your cousin.https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/840264425206624256 …
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Yep. This, more than any intrinsic property, is the main reason why security folks say iOS is more secure - reliable update chain.
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Replying to @mattblaze @zeynep
It’s also why I get nervous about gov’t requests to use updates as a spyware install vector. Trust in updates is ecological issue.
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Completely agree; that was the problem with the Apple vs. FBI round. I had an op-ed about it, I kid you not, spam filter ate.
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