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Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM says (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by marco@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn't permanently installed on a phone.

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[-] aranym@lemmy.name 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this might be true for iOS, isn't the case on Android. Android phones still fully shut down in the traditional sense.

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