When I was in DevSecOps all the infosec guys were Android and had a choice to and everyone else was forced into iOS.

Also had the ability to run Linux natively on my work machine, which was nice.

One problem too is theres usually no way to update software on a dumbphone, especially in areas like the baseband.

So what happens when there's a baseband exploit?

90+% of users don't even know features like "Find My" exist on their devices.

The average user has zero reason to go into some deep settings menu, or even plug in over USB and execute against it to unlock the bootloader.

>I can install whatever I want

Unless of course what you install is nefarious?

This is the same Apple that openly claimed in marketing material their computers "can't get a virus". My dude, a virus is code, code written with a specified malicious intent. They can...

Also every iOS usually ends up with a "jailbreak", which is also known as an exploit. But somehow in Apple world that's different.

One was a word doc they added "Confidential" to the footer, then released as PDF

They're "portable" in that they can be "universally" read. Not that you can create and manage them.

Editing PDF's is worse than editing documents in Microsoft Word!

Even generating them on the fly can be a real pain. I had a workflow when I was out of work to auto-generate a CV based upon re-writing sections to match the spec. So I'd have pre-written blocks and slot them in. And yet, somehow, even then it would break formatting all over the place.

>We also had to make our own ethernet cables, which is where I learned I can't wire ethernet cables if my life depended on it.

Are you me? would always take me about 10 attempts to even get one where all the pins would light up on a tester. But not good enough for high-speed data.

Kids these days, don't know when they were born. They have push-through RJ45 now, piece of piss and you never have one shorter than the other.

I don't miss on-site/DC infrastructure anymore. No more having to squeeze into tiny spaces, balance a lot of expensive kit on your head, and blood donations to the server gods.

Compute is so ubiquitous now I only have like 2 nodes in my lab anyway

> blood donations to the server gods

It really bothered me that for how much enterprise gear costs, the manufacturers couldn't be bothered to deburr the edges of rails/servers/etc.

Hey man, saving 10 cents a rack is 10 cents directly in my pocket -- rack CEO.

We had to make our own cable. The boss had his own special way for us to order the wires when we did it. Worked okay for 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s on a good day.

It's been a claim for a long time. They used to claim that in the UK with people selling DVD's in pubs.