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[–] tldrbot 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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Australia's prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has told residents they should turn their smartphones off and on again once a day as a cybersecurity measure - and tech experts agree. He said rebooting a phone regularly could minimise risk because it forcibly closes any applications and processes running in the background that could maliciously be monitoring users or collecting data. Nanda said some of the benefits of rebooting a phone could be achieved by regularly closing apps that might be running in the background. There could be other malicious processes running on a compromised device that will only be stopped by turning the phone off. Some components of phones can remain active even if turned off.


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[–] QuarterSwede 6 points 1 year ago
[–] muaveri 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I, as a minister of ROM say, buy yourself a cell phone that is compatible with a good custom rom, nuke a stockware and free yourself from headache.

[–] SidewaysHighways 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If one were so inclined to get back into rooting and flashing roms, which is a good solid phone model that will have support for a decent amount of time?

I got out of it years ago after unknowingly picking a phone that no devs were messing with anymore.

[–] muaveri 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd probably go with Pixel or OnePlus but you can check this list for some more devices. And here for official LineageOS support.

[–] ozymandias117 1 points 1 year ago

If you go with Pixel, two other to consider are CalyxOS and GrapheneOS, depending on how much you care about privacy/usability. The downside is those only really support Pixel. LineageOS supports a lot more devices

[–] R0ME0 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the ROM you want but Google/Oneplus devices are very commonly supported and easily unlocked. OnePlus isn't up to it's current iteration on some major roms but Google pixel 7 line works with lots of the popular ones (specifically: lineage, paranoidandroid, evolutionx).

I'd choose what ROM you want check supported devices to make sure they have one modern enough for you then decide based on that.

Probably goes without saying but avoid carrier phones as they are generally harder to unlock the bootloader or sometimes impossible.

[–] elboyoloco 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Won't this remove Google play store?

[–] SidewaysHighways 4 points 1 year ago

Back in the day you just had to get the GAAPs apk or something. Gosh, it's been over a decade since I was flashing roms all the time lol

[–] trachemys 8 points 1 year ago

The five minutes part seems to be irrelevant. They just want you to reboot once a day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's asking a lot out of me

[–] YellowtoOrange -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, better to do nothing that can help your privacy and security and complain about it later :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read OP as making a joke.

But yeah, we get into our daily routines and forget/neglect to perform some tasks, rebooting the phone and/or tablet and/or computer doesn't feel as crucial as... say brushing your teeth every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Wait, you guys brush your teeth every day?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You know me too well

[–] random72guy 5 points 1 year ago

My Galaxy Note 20 used to let me schedule restarts daily. I'd put in my password, then biometrics would work the rest of the day. Then they removed the feature to make things "simpler;" so it reboots and requires a password whenever's least convenient. (Unfortunately rooting isn't an option when using a work profile.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I thought that both Ios and android will kill apps that are in the background after some time. Also there are apps that can start automatically in the background when the phone is started like google images which uploads pictures. Why wouldnt a malicious app hook into the same place?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] figaro 0 points 1 year ago

That's helpful advice I guess.