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What are some things you can/should cheap out on? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I often hear, "You should never cheap out on a good office chair, shoes, underpants, backpack etc.." but what are some items that you would feel OK to cheap out on?

This can by anything from items such as: expensive clothing brands to general groceries.

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[–] NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just for my personal understanding. How often have you heard about security issues from missing updates in older phones? In real life, I mean, not in some blog or video? I'm having a hard time finding any information about real cases. There are hundreds of articles from tech-sites and security companies.

To me it feels like selling pick-proof locks, a market without actual use-cases. You can pick them all anyway, but nobody actually does it.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I used to do phone security for a living. I've seen a handful of cases in person. The bigger issue is that most of the time you don't know it was the phone that caused your problems. One day your bank is drained and you don't know why.

There have been several zero days that gave anyone that wanted to the ability to own your phone with a text that you never even saw because the phone doesn't show you command texts.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-zero-click-imessage-exploit-used-to-infect-iphones-with-spyware/

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unlike the good ol' malwares that let you know that you're infected by deleting your files or messing up your system, modern malware authors are profit-oriented and will do everything they can to make you unaware that your devices are infected. Then they'll exfiltrate your data and sell them on various underground marketplace such as this one.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Definitely. If you know your device is infected then someone drastically messed up. The new stuff isn't like the old stuff.