Back in 2009, anynone with a Nokia could have a personal website running on their own phone. Sadly this amazing piece of tech was never widely adopted. Today’s phone are far more powerful than those Nokias both in performance and battery backup and still we don’t see anyone running a server on their phone. Why? I think this was never implemented on phones because there’s no incentive for large corporations to work on something like this.
  • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    That’s a good idea since phones tend to be online most of the time anyways, although there is some privacy implications as well.

    • XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, your average user isn’t going to be able to secure their mobile server in any meaningful way. We’d see a trend in mobile phone hacks toot-sweet.

  • Tsaot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This would be such an appealing attack surface. Get a bot net node and someone’s personal info in one swoop? Just wait 4-5 years for a bunch of phones with this feature to stop receiving security updates and then set your bots loose.

    And the opportunity for personal attacks… Don’t like someone? Blow up their phone with a DDOS! Kill their battery and online connectivity with constant http requests.