[pkteison]

These articles scare my mom and she gets convinced she will be hacked. I wish there was a way to write stories like this to make it clear it's a real, important issue, but not directly to you. Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest way to bank yet invented, but she sees articles like this and ends up thinking exactly the opposite.

[bgentry]

Also, recommending to normal people that they should use their iPhone in Lockdown Mode (as this article does) is terrible advice. It comes with some significant tradeoffs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

[nytesky]

Lockdown mode? I might as well surf the web in a Linux terminal and use a flip phone.

[methuselah_in]

Buy her Android

[resource_waste]

> Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest way to bank yet invented,

Maybe second safest. Nothing beats Android's mobile record.

Are you unaware of Pegasus/ NSO Group? They are doing laps around Apple with 0 clicks. Android still requires you to manually go to a website, download something, approve installs from browser, etc...

[jmclnx]

>Mom banking on an iPhone is the safest way to bank yet invented, but she sees articles like this and ends up thinking exactly the opposite.

I do not know why people think this. I make sure nothing Financial Related is on any kind of Cell Phone. With the closed system, you have no idea what Apple or Google is seeing.

I miss the days before Cell Phones, where there were a lot of regulations surrounding Land Lines.

[pvg]

With the closed system, you have no idea what Apple or Google is seeing.

I think you have the 'inaccurate bits of conventional wisdom' reversed. People have a pretty good idea of what Apple and Google see and banking on your iPhone is safer than driving to the bank.

[aetch]

You are exactly the audience being misled by these articles. Apple or Google aren’t secretly screen recording you and couldnt care less about your bank account.