Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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This is a good list and gives a lot of context to help a person understand what they’re doing and how it changes their phone.
Not enough can be said of the effect lockdown mode has on stuff everyone expects to “just work” though. It really cuts a lot off.
I've hardened my iPhone a year ago.
I got rid of it!
Got rid of all US services I was still using.
Started self hosting all my stuff.
Switched to Graphene OS.
Good info for those of us who still have an iPhone. A pixel with grapheme OS still seems like the best option for a smartphone so I think I'll switch to that for my next phone.
iphone hardening is a myth
“Hardening” is a spectrum, not a binary.
That is not true.
I am open to hearing evidence to the contrary.
can it reach graphene os levels of privacy -- where not even apple or isreal have the ability to look at the contents of your phone?
I don’t know what can happen.
What has been shown over and over again in the world of physical security is cellebrite (an Israeli phone hacking company) reporting in their internal marketing and training leaks that updated iphones are less exploitable with their hardware system than everything except for updated graphene pixels. Cellebrite is commonly used by cops. The most recent leak indicated that a locked after first unlock (afu), a less secure state than before first unlock (bfu), iphone could have enough data retrieved from it that the company would sell you their services to produce a hack unique to that device and software in six months.
Ios is a big target and has had exploits used by nations intelligence services before. It is extremely rare that they are zero-day, meaning that there isn’t a patch out, and if memory serves there has never been one seen in the wild that was both a zero day and not covered by lockdown mode.
I encourage you to look into the cellebrite leaks, the op list and the computer security worlds reporting of ios vulnerabilities and evaluate for yourself if it meets that bar. I use both ios and graphene daily so it meets my personal criteria.
E: In case I am being too detailed, adp encrypts your cloud data removing your capacity to recover your account through apple and the phones themselves are using encrypted memory and storage. Restart often and learn your phones duress options.