• floofloof
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    6 hours ago

    That’s not a compromised device though, it’s a device with default settings.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Yes, which is a compromised device. A Windows machine without any antivirus or malware protection is a compromised device, for example.

      Read the back half of this writeup and realize the target audience should be people with basic security steps taken. No journalist going out of their way to talk to whistleblowers is going to have a default settings phone, or any phone on them at all for that matter I would expect.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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        5 hours ago

        Windows machines have default antivirus. I would not expect disabling push notifications to be a basic security measure. Pretty much everyone has push notifications, including the target audience. A lot of them also don’t take a device-wide VPN because they expect only websites to track them.

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