by amaajemyfren on 5/7/21, 3:13 PM with 22 comments
by ______- on 5/7/21, 4:55 PM
I keep my app-count to a minimum. There are people who need every app imaginable, but that increases the attack surface of the phone. Try to minimize the amount of apps on your phone please!
Then of course all the usual OPSEC practices like not clicking on suspicious links in Whatsapp, E-mail or SMS always apply. You have to consider the human element of all this. So many people have been owned by fat-fingering some suspicious link in an SMS that then took over their phone.
But there is always the argument that: phones ship with malware anyway so you're pwned either way.
by zibzab on 5/7/21, 4:17 PM
This happened months ago but I still can't see much info. Also, I see check point reported 4-5 issues to qcomm, not 400.
To people complaining android never gets updates: Android has been providing monthly security updates for some years now. It is even possible that this was fixed even faster since modern android can update some system libraries right from the store (Project Treble announced in 2017)
by afrcnc on 5/7/21, 4:29 PM
by johnthuss on 5/7/21, 4:27 PM
400 vulnerabilities! Good luck getting any reasonable percentage of users to install these patches. The software update situation on Android is horrible.by smiley1437 on 5/7/21, 3:57 PM
by lawtalkinghuman on 5/7/21, 4:10 PM
by Proven on 5/7/21, 4:31 PM
That's pretty cool - you can pay almost nothing for the s/w and still get a phone that works.