Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 08:05:03 +0200 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 08:05:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="96b6abdab3efa2e3589922b94a55d600"; logging-data="2791779"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18csvqRsrbOFFmKAKG6lFZjo83eVimIdwY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/115.11.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tVtvt4IAbVj0reTQOGZf/uwtVes= Content-Language: de-CH, en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1871 Am 31.05.24 um 23:20 schrieb Larry Wolff: > In a document detailing several mobile device best practices, the NSA > recommends users turn their devices off and then back on once every week to > protect against zero-click exploits, which attackers often use to eavesdrop > on and collect data from phones. > > https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018353-nsa-mobile-device-best-practices > Does this advice hold true for PC's also? A cellphone is nothing else than a desktop machine or laptop: A computer. If it is correct which I doubt the answer is yes. The link does not load on my Mac/Firefox. Is this a trustworthy site? Even if I allow Java-script. -- "Gutta cavat lapidem." (Ovid)