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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)
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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Security updates are good but the major of the weakness it's the human using the device, there wouldn't be any security update which can fight a dumb user, my humble POV.

I'm not saying you are dumb, what I'm saying it's from my POV security updates are redundant.

According what I know about devices security updates are meant to protect corporations interests they usually are not to protect you from being hacked it's more like to protect the corporations devices from you hacking it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's vulnerabilities like the recent iMessage exploit that are executed remotely through no interaction by the user. In combination with the ability to self-spread you get mass exploits like WannaCry which spread to 300k+ computers in 7 hours. All you need is a network connection.