• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Why am I hearing about iPhone attacks so much recently? But none on android?

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      1 year ago

      It can often be more important to inform apple users of attacks and exploits because android users aren’t often under the illusion that they’re immune from such happenings.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I feel like safe browsing practices and digital hygiene should be taught in middle schools. That’s the age I was taught things about computers in the early 2000s, like how to use a word processor, do research, save to floppy disks, not visit shady websites, and don’t click on ads. People just assume all that malware has been scrubbed from the Internet by now, but it has not.

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      Android is open source so thousands of people have eyes on the source code and can find security holes. iOS (along with everything else Apple does) is closed source, so only they can review the code. This makes Linux based devices inherently more secure. Also, a lot of prominent people have iPhones so they’re the targets of attack.