How many wiretaps do you have in your home?
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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this gonna be an unpopular take, but your mobile phone is worse for privacy than an Alexa or Google Home. And most people's PCs are worse than their phones.
How are PCs worse than phones?
Sticking with "the average pc" and "the average phone" — I'd say there are more vectors of vulnerability in the wide arrange of sites and programs the average person interacts with on their PC than there is on a phone, as well as a PC being a better target to compromise than someone's phone.
Happy to be proved wrong but I rarely hear about someone's phone being randomwared, botnetted, remote accessed etc
More vulnerable, probably yes. Phones are very locked down and secured (unless you root or install custom firmware).
But, they are still worse for privacy due to how they're used. The phone (and thus Google and Apple and Facebook and others) has access to your location all the time - your computer doesn't. The computer is only vulnerable when on - the phone is always on.
The threats are different and from different sources. Random hackers mining shitcoins on your computer, big companies knowing what you're doing when you carry your phone.