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It's a curious set of things you've chosen to communicate to users about the security of mobile phones. For instance, it's important to your page to tell users that phones make it harder to "replace the operating system". That's true, but from the vantage point of security, operating system replacements are mostly a tool for attackers, not defenders.



That entirely depends on your threat model.

If you are defending against somebody capturing your credit card number when you buy something online, replacing the OS is mainly done by the attacker.

If you are defending against a NSA-like agency flagging political discourse and discovering you and your friends, the most usual method for defending against those starts by replacing your OS.


It might be more accurate, though confusing for lay readers, to explain that replacing the operating system can both increase--by keeping more up to date than official updates might allow--and decrease--by deactivating security features that also prevent rooting--your security, even for a single given threat model.


I'll think some more about how we talk about that issue. If you have other comments on that page, I'd be happy to hear them too.




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