In terms of personal data security, push-button phones are absolutely unreliable as they create digital traces that can identify the user. About this “socialbites.ca” said Konstantin Gorbunov is a network threat expert and web developer at Code Security.
“Just because a phone doesn’t have a touchscreen doesn’t mean it doesn’t have access to the internet. In the 2010s, a large number of push-button phones appeared that also had a browser and network access, meaning the same network threats apply to them as modern smartphones, which It was simply adapted to the current operating system at that time,” Gorbunov explained.
That is, push-button phones also have the ability to create a digital footprint on the Internet when used to access the global network. They have an IP address (a unique identifier is available for each device connected to the Internet – “socialbites.ca”), which means they can be identified. The expert noted that in this case, push-button phones are more vulnerable to surveillance because it is more difficult to customize them at the software level due to the lack of a wide range of applications like Android. .
“If we talk about push-button phones that do not have access to the network and can only make calls and send SMS, then in this case it will still not be possible to completely hide the digital trace. Cellular operators can store both SMS and data on calls made,” added Gorbunov.
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