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Why an unhackable mobile phone is a marketing myth

The mobile security market is taking flight due to high-profile hackings, but is there such a thing as an unhackable phone? Especially one that costs as much as $14K?

Consider this: The smartphone in your pocket is 10 times more powerful than the fastest multi-million dollar supercomputers of just 20 years ago. There are tens of millions of lines of software in that phone of yours. There are hundreds of apps written by more than one million developers, some of whom are hackers, and some of whom are just incompetent at security. And then there are chips in your phone that run sophisticated software, from companies located in countries all around the world, all of which have security bugs.

The complexity is mind-boggling — and so are all the security vulnerabilities that exist and will be found in the future.

In short, anyone who claims to sell an “unhackable phone” is either ignorant or lying.

With cybercriminals increasingly targeting mobile devices (such as with malicious apps and phishing schemes), threatening both the consumer and enterprises, the market is rushing to provide solutions to mobile security threats. Gartner calls this Mobile Threat Defense.

Everyone — no matter which phone they own — needs to be vigilant before downloading apps. For example, hackers recently created versions of Pokémon Go that contained malicious spyware that was released to eager fans before its official release. Even the first version of the legitimate Pokémon Go app was spying on many of your activities, and the developer and app stores didn’t catch it.

Read more here – https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/08/why-an-unhackable-mobile-phone-is-a-complete-marketing-myth/