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4 ways mobile browsers are safer than PC

4 ways mobile browsers are safer than PC

Update: 2025-10-22
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To be clear, mobile security always needs to be taken seriously. It not only has vulnerabilities, but some very unique ones, owing to the way smartphones work. People are regularly targeted with spam and fraud calls, and it's all too easy for a scam center to bombard users with "smishing" texts -- SMS phishing attacks. At the extreme, authoritarian regimes willl use spyware like Pegasus to follow people around, take photos, and even listen in on conversations -- all possible because most people carry their phone wherever they go. If you're worried about that degree of intrusion, there's not much more you can do other than keep politically sensitive interactions offline.

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4 ways mobile browsers are safer than PC

4 ways mobile browsers are safer than PC

Roger Fingas