There is no such thing as a secure and private mobile device. The closest you can get is one that's completely air gapped through hardware mods.
It's all a question of risk management (i.e. quantity of data or coin exposed to/by the device) and trade-offs (i.e. you get to select who has your device root, and then assume other sophisticated actors will get it as well).
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There are plenty of ways for the average person to mitigate their identity without being air gapped, but for arguments sake, I’ll agree. Unfortunately, that doesn’t change anything about my comment, Android security is like having a screen door on a submarine, if it weren’t true, teams like graphene wouldn’t exist.
The point was never to insinuate that an iPhone is unhackable, just that security is a higher priority for them, otherwise they wouldn’t be the only devices allowed to store confidential NATO material on them. I also doubt the only reason that an iPhone went to space, was because it was a better build quality.
Confidential NATO material?
I assume that's a joke, right?