On Saturday, 28 March 2020 8:37:23 PM AEDT Mark Trickett via luv-main wrote: > There have been cases of the phone being "ported" to a different > mobile service provider, and the phone being stripped of personal > data. It may be not common, but it is a real risk. There are also
There are many rumors about this. If you have a recent phone that has an SSL implementation without flaws (IE not Android 2.3 or something) then a hostile intermediary can't fake the Play Store and push apps on you. If you have Android 2.3 and aren't important in some way (why would someone who meets any definition of "important" be using Android 2.3?) then hostile parties probably won't try to attack you, they will go for the wealthier 99% of the market. An Android phone won't inherently have any information on you other than access to a Gmail account. Whether that is a risk depends on what you do with your Gmail account, admittedly Google tries to coerce users into using their Gmail account for many things. > issues about the durability of the various devices. My mobile is a > Nokia 6120-c, and is still locked to the Telstra network. It can do > the Internet, but the screen is way too small, and while it will do > bluetooth, I have a Telstra 4GX Advanced III, with the cradle, and My observation is that devices become unable to use the right frequencies before they become unusable due to other reasons. I've got a couple of Android 2.3 phones that still work OK for what they do, but they use the old Telstra frequencies and now that GSM has gone away they can't be used on any non-Telstra network and are pretty much unusable on Telstra. Phones haven't got much bigger since the first Galaxy Note was released in 2011. Phones haven't had much usable improvement in displays since the Galaxy Note 3 was released in 2013 with a FullHD display (there aren't many laptops with a higher resolution than that on sale now). The main factor stopping continued use of phones is lack of security support. If you want a long-term secure phone you need to install your own OS. Doing so is really hard because phones were not designed like PCs - which I consider to be a significant flaw. I think that as the first Android phone had 256M of RAM (256* more than a real- mode PC could address and 64* more than the first Linux PC I used) there's no reason that it couldn't have had a standard "BIOS" interface to provide basic video without special drivers (before OS specific drivers are loaded) and basic touch screen and storage access. Then it could have been designed for multiple boot devices so if you wanted to try a new OS on your phone you could just install a new micro-SD card that was bootable. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
