[ericwooley]

This seems like a stretch. I'd love to see the statistics on this. Anyone know of any datasets of infections by operating system and severity?

It seems incorrect that iOS would be a higher value target for malware. Getting at valuable data would be much harder. Getting at backups would be harder. Encrypting the service for ransom would be harder. Disguising your apps illicit activities would be harder. And businesses are much less likely to store the payroll data (or whatever sensitive info) in their iOS device.

Only things I can think of would be iMessages, and location data, but your likely able to get iMessages of of someone's Mac...

Am I missing something here?

[throwawaygh]

Re: Mac vs. iOS: Personal iOS devices are used to access all sorts of critical business infrastructure, but are rarely locked down and monitored to the same extent as corporate-issued laptops.

I can access Slack, 2FA codes, corporate email, ... on both devices. But my corporate laptop is super locked down and uses a special app store, whereas on my personal device I can install whatever the hell I want (and not just in practice -- I'm not aware of any corporate policy at my employer that prohibits installing arbitrary 3rd party apps on the same device that has access to your corporate slack account... seems like a huge oversight)

[kevingadd]

Personally, my employer locks down desktop PCs far more than phones, in part because desktop PCs have access to secrets like encryption keys and source code. Phones are just used for 2FA codes, email and video calls (all of which you can also do on your PC).

This is not compatible with an argument that phones are more important to secure.