I feel like the not-Mossad thing is a straw man. This is the sort of Android problem I worry about: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/broadcom-chip-bug-opened-1-billion-phones-to-a-wi-fi-hopping-worm-attack/ …https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/893298393392578564 …
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/2 This bug was patched on IOS and Pixel in a timely fashion. All those *other* Android phones out there -- 1B+ still vulnerable!
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/3 I would say Google has the juice to push phone makers and carriers about this, but it might cost them. I also think, historically,
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/4 This was an easier problem to fix earlier in history, when everyone was panicked about IOS eating the world, but Google acted like ..
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/5 Danger, and not like the behemoth it was. Water under the bridge, but I think it's fair to criticize Google for not using its (even more)
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/6 stockpiles of capital and influence today to push for patches for all Androids. This *is* hard, and it is hard in a way that Google is
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/7 really unwilling to deal with: Politics, administrative work, and high touch negotiating relationships with a lot of institutions.
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/8 The same sorts of skills you'd need to successfully negotiate with cities and incumbents for a fiber business.
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Replying to @mattcutts
Sorry, I'm still butt hurt I can get AT&T Fiber 7 minutes from the Googleplex and not Google Fiber. :P
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