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How about all these smartphones being sold with unsupported broken versions of Android?

• problems 10y ago
  Mostly not remotely exploitable or not easily, so they can probably get away fine. There's no giant Android botnet eating the internet.
  • djsumdog 10y ago
    That still doesn't excuse it at the least. Forcing manufactures to support security updates on these devices for a reasonable amount of time (no less than 6 years) would greatly slow planned obsolescence and may even force manufactures to actually agree on driver and kernel standards instead of their mess of non-upstreamable garbage patches. Right now we're lucky to get even 2 years of normal updates (much less security updates) on any Android device.
    • paulddraper 10y ago
      Are the any big vulnerabilities you're thinking of?