Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM says

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Turn your phone off every night for five minutes, Australian PM tells residents
theguardian.com

Interesting to hear such things discussed at that level. Turning it off is suggested to get rid of compromised background processes that might be spying on users. Obviously, this only help against malware that isn't permanently installed on a phone.

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As if any spyware worth it's salt didn't install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like "Facebook" or "TikTok".

undefined> Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I wouldn't call those innocuous at all, lol.

I have both of those spywares installed!!

That was my initial reaction too, but I believe there is also a good amount of attacks that use 0-day exploits and might not have an angle for permanence yet.