Most of the advice seems to be very sound to me other than the mobile anti virus. I've used Lookout several times on Android, and it does nothing to prevent malicious software, I know from personal experience when I Android got Malware and lookout scan reported everything is fine.
Your comments (this one, and others downthread) get downvoted to hell yet tptacek's comment [0] -- which says basically the same thing -- is at the top. WTF?
Interesting. I'm not an security expert, but believe locking SIM card with a PIN code is a reasonably good idea to ensure in case of a stolen smartphone (non-targeted) it would be more likely thrown out as useless rather than used for any nefarious purposes.
SIM card PINs are not discussed in the article. Instead they recommend asking your telcos support rep to attach a note to your account to prevent sim swapping, which doesn't work.
libpurple suffers from very poor code quality, leading to tons of exploitable vulnerabilities. Just as you would expect when writing C parsers for lots of complicated protocols.
> libpurple suffers from very poor code quality, leading to tons of exploitable vulnerabilities. Just as you would expect when writing C parsers for lots of complicated protocols.
Is this your personal feeling or do you have something to back this up? A quick look at the source code suggests it's basically like any other glib based program.