According to this article I’ll be linking to, some advice that came from Australia’s Prime Minister indicates that you should turn off your phone for at least 5 minutes to prevent attacks like Spear Phishing, clickjacking and other attacks.
While you and I could get email saying that we owe money where we don’t, or a package is delayed where it isn’t, we normally don’t get something that will run on our device without prompting.
While turning off your IPhone is an interesting idea, it may solve some underlying issue you may have because it’ll flush out the memory and clear anything stuck. But I personally have gone weeks with this phone without restarting it. In fact, running updates like the latest 16.5.1 must be done at a time I’m not expecting any visitors or potential calls.
With that said, if you feel you need to turn off your device every day, go for it. But it isn’t going to solve the types of attacks mentioned within the article the minister is saying it’ll stop.
Please read this full article which covers IOS features that might be of value to protect yourself. Its titled Why tips like ‘turn off your iPhone for five minutes’ don’t actually help users and make it a great day! Sound off BTW and let us know your thoughts.
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Hmmm I don’t know if that advice is smart at least not worded like that.
Saying that I always shut down my symbian unit every couple days to charge it then reboot.
We tend to leave our systems always active because we get whatever on em.
I usually try to leave it off either first thing in the morning, last thing at night or while I don’t need it.
However its a bit harder to do that.
I do think we should reboot our units and check caches and clean a little more.
I clean my system with a quickrun ccleaner which I have set up ages ago every time I complete a net session, and a full ms disk cleanup on update of the system in conjunction.
I also don’t have my brousers save history at all and it works well for me especially because I do some less secure things.
But not everyone would do that.
I mean with all the online updates who knows.
It may be good advice but our online society isn’t going to take fools not with all the things to click.