@kdfrawg I feel only marginally better that I work for a company that has found more than half of the zero-day malware in Android last year… and I can deploy their stuff on my handsets.

Obviously it's no guarantees, but it's not like I'm flying completely blind and unprotected either, which the average person surely is. :P

My TRS-80 Model MC-10 (Tandy's version of the Vic 20 or the Timex Sinclair or whatever) had 4k and then my Dad got the 16k memory expansion for it. :P

@kdfrawg I don't trust Android security, which is why I don't do anything particularly important on these phones. That said, they might be more cost-effective than buying a new iPhone every two years.

I remember when 20k was an unimaginable amount :P

@kdfrawg At least the errors are not of the kindergarten variety, meaning it takes some effort to exploit them. By not using the browser plugin, I've reduced the attack surface substantially.

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Trying another $30 Android device, this time the Kyocera Hydro View. Feels solid (waterproof even) but it’s only got a gig of RAM and runs Android 5.0 slowly.

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Most of their hacks relate to using the browser plugin. I've stopped using it and just use the native Mac app. Slightly less convenient but more secure.

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actually, the free version of LastPass should work for most people. I like having encrypted file attachments as well, which is why I pay the $12/year.

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and people wonder why I pay $12/year for LastPass. Because it's cheaper than what I'd have to pay for barely equivalent functionality with 1Password.

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Hopefully now Android users can actually use the Jive Daily app on the community site. Before the "splash page" that we were injecting was getting injected was breaking the SSO. Used an iframe to set a cookie to cause that splash page not to come up.