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Subject: Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 12:06:35 +0100
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Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> writes:

> On 2024-05-31 14:20, Larry Wolff wrote:
>> In a document detailing several mobile device best practices, the NSA
>> recommends users turn their devices off and then back on once every week to
>> protect against zero-click exploits, which attackers often use to eavesdrop
>> on and collect data from phones.
>> https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018353-nsa-mobile-device-best-practices
>> Does this advice hold true for PC's also?
>
> Got any proof that document was created by the NSA?

Whether it is or not from NSA, it is good advice I think, as when you
reboot the phone only authorised apps are permitted to run so any
malicious background tasks which have managed to sneak in will be
removed. Also it will clear cached data.