We've reduces a huge amount of security to cell phone security, whether it's TFA, or chat, or even SSL transactions over web or apps, all while cell phone security has declined into an environment of neglect.
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No one needs to break crypto or monkey with a server when some side of a transaction is an Android that stopped getting patches in 2015. And there's always one in there, always always always, because keeping Androids secure requires $$$ that only geeks can spend like that.
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At the moment, the Android operating system environment is basically an extortion scheme.
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Replying to @quinnnorton
Would love to know what this rhetoric is based on
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Replying to @k3170Makan
most androids in use in the world get no patches or security update, and there's often as small as a two year window on patches for premium phones.
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Replying to @quinnnorton @k3170Makan
because they're controlled by the vendors and there's no requirements on how long they should be supported, you're best off buying whatever google selling, every few years, which is very expensive to most of the world.
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Replying to @quinnnorton @k3170Makan
your other realistic option is to go with something like LineageOS, which is updated, but requires you to root your phone, exposing you to a different set of vulns. Android is just a bad ecosystem right now.
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Replying to @quinnnorton
No rooting doesnt inherently expose vulns again, you can decide how your device is rooted because the operating system allows it. If you should root it in a way that doesnt protect root privileges then of course you expose yourself to vulns. You are not forced to so this though
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Replying to @k3170Makan
you're trying to explain what root means to me.
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Replying to @quinnnorton
Well you proposed in your wording that rooting inherently introduces bugs no? all I am saying is there are probably secure ways to root your phone - meaning you can root it in a way that doesn't inherently expose bugs. You are saying this is impossible?
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Most(/all?) devices have no way to prevent or detect physical tampering with the OS once the bootloader is unlocked to install a non-vendor OS...
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Replying to @RichFelker
thanks. i'm going to go make some tea and write about CATS :D
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