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Google has been awfully silent about the whole thing, how secure are Android phones (Nexus phones in particular) against a similar attack? I'm wondering if the
by Johnny555 11y ago
Google has been awfully silent about the whole thing, how secure are Android phones (Nexus phones in particular) against a similar attack?
I'm wondering if they are so easy to crack that this hasn't been a problem for Google. Either that, or their phones are just as secure as iPhones, and they caved to FBI demands immediately.
- mythz 11y agoDefinitely tepid, only visible response from Sundar's tweets: https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/700104298600886272 https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/700104298600886272
- danieldk 11y agoI found this surprising as well. There is some information in this article: https://itsecuritything.com/google-nexus-6p-security-teardown/ https://itsecuritything.com/google-nexus-6p-security-teardow... To be honest, I think for non-Nexus phones, the situation is pretty bad. Even if a device vendor would not cooperate, security updates are so glacial (if they happen at all) that a state actor probably won't have much trouble finding attack vectors. (I am pretty frustrated by the lack of updates for my Moto X. Motorola used to be pretty good at is. Now I have Marshmallow, but they didn't roll out any security updates beyond November. It seems that they just want to tick off the Marshmallow box and that's it.)