On 08/31/2016 07:58 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
Actually, I suggest not using Android at all in this capacity. Android
is not a secure, reliable platform.
Good point.
I don't dare use Android for anything sensitive, it is too big a target,
too weakly secured. I use NO Android banking apps. (Were I an Apple
type, same answer.)
Actually, I do use a cheap and very off-brand Android phone for
sensitive stuff--but I keep it /incommunicado/. I have never put a SIM
in it (it came from Hong Kong, it is all international, it has two SIM
slots!). I have never let it connect to the internet. So I don't need to
trust it so much.
But my daily phone and Nexus 7 tablet? No way I will type any sensitive
passwords on either of them.
My e-mail? Not so sensitive. I don't bother to encrypt messages.
If I had really sensitive e-mail, how would I do that? An interesting
question. It would depend on the details: What am I doing that is so
damn special and who might be after it? How hard might they try? How
much money do they have to spend, how good is the sound proofing where
they keep the $5 wrenches (https://xkcd.com/538/)?
There is a general-purpose good reason to encrypt e-mail: to make life
harder for the spies. More encrypted traffic means more inaccessible hay
for them to stack up in frustration.
-kb
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