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What could possibly go wrong holding back dependency upgrades and even forcefully downgrading them to support ancient end-of-life Android versions released in 2014 and end-of-life since after 2017?
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Each major Android version receives 3 years of monthly security updates. In the first year, there are also monthly updates with assorted improvements and quarterly updates with major enhancements. 2nd/3rd year are LTS support. Nexus/Pixel phones have never used the LTS support.
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Android 9 was released August 2018 and has been end-of-life since February 2022.
Pixel 3 launched with Android 9 and ended up on Android 12. It's EOL due to end of SoC support. It could have had a full 3 more years of updates on Android 12 if the SoC was still supported...
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Considering the kind of project orbot is, ensuring people who do not have the option of upgrading their devices retain access doesn't seem completely nonsensical?
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Do they warn those users that their devices are trivially exploited, and that using Tor makes them into a target of hostile exit nodes which can trivially exploit a bunch of vulnerabilities in their OS from as far back as 2017 and likely significantly older than that?
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