• comfy
    link
    11 year ago

    There is no such thing as “full security and privacy”. It doesn’t exist and it’s not a useful goal.

    Security and privacy don’t exist as absolute values. Things are not universally more or less secure than other things. You need to understand things like the needs of a situation (e.g. you correctly pointing out a modern phone has more use-cases than a landline), who the threats are, and what their capabilities are. Putting a decent password on an iPhone makes it adequately private and secure against my parents. Using a landline is not adequately secure against a government agency. Know Your Enemy!

    As for your advice, a quick counter:

    • FOSS does not imply correctness. In fact, FOSS is great because we know for a fact it has and always will have bugs! That helps us know his much to trust it instead of being a mystery like proprietary junk. So while I personally trust GrapheneOS to do those tasks better than stock ROMs, that line of reasoning is dangerous and historically known to be inaccurate.
    • FOSS is on the software level anyway, certain adversaries are capable of attacking at the hardware level. Typical scammers aren’t. Who’s your threat??