So how secure are modern day cell phones? I'm going on a 3-month stint overseas to Asia, kinda worried about pickpockets and such. Andriod phone with latest(or next to) OS, 6-digit pin not in the top 20 most used, and use fingerprint. Not rooted stock Samsung and a Xiaomi(old phone I use for backup).Supposing it got snatched and they disable the wifi/mobile data before I can wipe it what am I realistically looking at in terms of breaking in? Call me paranoid but just wondering if it's best to move over any kind of mobile pay and other BS to a phone I leave somewhere secured in my room while I am out. Maybe I got spooked because the amount of "instant unlock any phone" videos on YT which are probably just scam/virus programs but still I remember in the earlier andriod days unlock methods could be done with a few minutes of work and 0 tools.>inb4 gib it back jamalAsking what is the security of a device I have that if lost or stolen, what the chances of it being unlocked with my personal data intact is.
Uhh alright then...
It's a really good question. Smartphones these days try to encrypt themselves, and we know for example that the FBI tried to ask Apple to decrypt some smartphones (but they denied the request and/or couldn't or perhaps did it behind a gag order).It's really not a trivial question at all.
>>108654637They're extremely unlikely to get access to your data if you use anything halfway modern but if it's stolen it's a near 100% chance they have someone that remove whatever OEM tier lock is on it to prevent it from being reset, reset it and resell it overseas.
>>108655171>that removeI accidentally a "can" there. These anti theft measures aren't nearly as effective as they would like you to believe.
>>108655171My phone is an A36, keep updates on it and my XIaomi is a 14? Pretty sure it's within 1-2 latest Android versions.Probably just freaking out too much since I recall like the Andriod 4-8 days working helpdesk everyone seemed to have some quick trick to bypass the lock screen.>>108655144Yeah I know an iphone lost is basically, chances of it being unlocked are null or it gets factory reset at china with sketch shit. I moved to andriod so kinda wasn't sure where it stood these days. Again I remember in the way back days you could do a ton of hacks in 5 minutes to get around a password.
>>108655276Technically, you could determine it by looking at CP court cases.Because CP is the most illegal thing without touching the subject of national security subjects (which might get censored because of security interests by the state).Well I'm too lazy to do that, and just don't have any interest in knowing the security characteristics. My only phone is a phone sponsored by my employer which I only use for work things.
>>108655333I get where you are coming from, but I think there is a difference between a government department with basically unlimited funding and public eyes on the case vs. A third world Filipino who has finite resources? idk
>>108655368I would suspect that most government intelligence organizations have capabilities that they keep secret.On the other hand they can't defy mathematics (aka cryptography) and may oversell their capabilities.In the end, it may be down to you giving in to a little pressure, depending on the local laws.
>>108655276The biggest realistic risk to your data being compromised would be them keeping the phone until an exploit for that OS version but that's only a realistic scenario as in so far as it is technically feasible. It isn't realistic for some third worlder to steal your phone to decrypt it later, most cases I know of the phones just got scrapped for parts immediately or sold as used to another third world country as quickly as possible. Criminals don't like keeping incriminating evidence around long for obvious reasons.Again I'm not saying it couldn't ever happen but you could also win the lottery three times in a row.
