I’m tech literate enough to understand potential points of failure and that level of security. I do, however, have an earnest question: how is this more secure when your information still exists on ~public servers in the form of credit assessors and the like? All of those credentials that you enter into your secure machine still go through the same pipes to the same bank that is ultimately still a target using AWS for all their internet-banking needs. So again, I understand limiting the points of failure, but then why not use graphene or another similar OS and keep convenience and security?
I mean no offense and am definitely not trying to convince you to change your habits, I am just genuinely curious as to your reasoning. Cheers, friend.
I am currently using Graphene, but that’s on a ticking clock until support runs out since so few devices support it, and the ones that do aren’t exactly cheap. TBH I’m sick of the whole smartphone concept, I hate that you’re supposed to do security-critical things on an expensive device with maybe 5 years of security support (much less if you’re buying used/refurbished, or cheaper models) that has a pretty high risk of breaking, getting lost or being stolen.
Some of it is also inertia TBF, I’m not used to doing that stuff on smartphones, I don’t like smartphone UI for anything that involves a lot of typing and I’m just not motivated to set it up.
If I wasn’t using Graphene, holy shit standard Android is SO insecure and most third party ROMs like LineageOS aren’t that much better.
I’m tech literate enough to understand potential points of failure and that level of security. I do, however, have an earnest question: how is this more secure when your information still exists on ~public servers in the form of credit assessors and the like? All of those credentials that you enter into your secure machine still go through the same pipes to the same bank that is ultimately still a target using AWS for all their internet-banking needs. So again, I understand limiting the points of failure, but then why not use graphene or another similar OS and keep convenience and security?
I mean no offense and am definitely not trying to convince you to change your habits, I am just genuinely curious as to your reasoning. Cheers, friend.
I am currently using Graphene, but that’s on a ticking clock until support runs out since so few devices support it, and the ones that do aren’t exactly cheap. TBH I’m sick of the whole smartphone concept, I hate that you’re supposed to do security-critical things on an expensive device with maybe 5 years of security support (much less if you’re buying used/refurbished, or cheaper models) that has a pretty high risk of breaking, getting lost or being stolen.
Some of it is also inertia TBF, I’m not used to doing that stuff on smartphones, I don’t like smartphone UI for anything that involves a lot of typing and I’m just not motivated to set it up.
If I wasn’t using Graphene, holy shit standard Android is SO insecure and most third party ROMs like LineageOS aren’t that much better.
He’s basically just paranoid and has no real grounding for it. It’s just good ol fashion paranoia.
that’s definitely a factor in it
There are dozens of us
I didn’t want to say it but I may know he’s paranoid because I too am paranoid…