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You probably don’t realize this… but whether you’re on iOS or Android, your phone is actually running two computers at the same time and one of them you’ve never seen. It’s called a Trusted Execution Environment, or TEE and it’s built right into your phone’s processor. Think of it as a tiny, locked-off computer inside your main one. It’s there to handle your most sensitive information things like your fingerprints, payment details, and encryption keys in a space the rest of your phone can’t even look into. When you do something secure like scan your face, unlock a file, or approve a payment your request skips Android or iOS completely and runs inside the TEE. But what if a hacker took full control of your main operating system? It has its own stripped-down operating system, its own memory, and everything in there is encrypted. So they still couldn’t get inside. And it’s not just in phones you’ll find TEEs in laptops, game consoles, even cloud servers. It’s basically a vault, welded...

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