ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal
> including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized "zero day" exploits, malware
> remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary
> collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of
> code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA
>
> https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
>
> Mark Shuttleworth has previous said that Ubuntu is strongly resistant to
> viruses.
>
> Many reports of Android and IOS targeting, perhaps this is a good reason to
> switch to ubuntu phone?
>

The short answer is Yes.

Towards that answer, both Android and iOS are much more complex
which does not help you to have a somewhat informed view as to what is
going on inside.

Simos