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> In a statement, Google officials wrote: "After researchers reported this issue to our Vulnerability Rewards Program, we worked closely with them to deeply und
by Steeeve 10y ago
> In a statement, Google officials wrote: "After researchers reported this issue to our Vulnerability Rewards Program, we worked closely with them to deeply understand it in order to better secure our users. We’ve developed a mitigation which we will include in our upcoming November security bulletin."
Then why am I reading about this in October?
- gcb0 10y agobecause nobody dares publishing anything on Android at Google without going past legal, pr and recently the founder
- bagacrap 10y agoPresumably you're asking why you're hearing about it before the fix is out. Perhaps Google is trying to apply public pressure to the manufacturers/carriers to actually update their devices since they have a habit of not pushing critical security updates very quickly.
- burkaman 10y agoBecause the existence of this exploit was already publicly known, as you can see in the many links in that article. That statement doesn't have any new information for people who want to break into your phone.