> And today we have this very impressive counter-example of Google putting some engineers to work for months doing vuln research for making, in the end, EVERYON

> And today we have this very impressive counter-example of Google putting some engineers to work for months doing vuln research for making, in the end, EVERYONE safer: Apple users, Samsung users, and hundreds of other mobile device vendors who use this popular Broadcom Wi-Fi chipset in products shipped to 1B+ users. This highly technical work is awesome, really. Yet the sad and unrelated part is that this will not trickle down to the massive amount of Android users that won't get any security fix in sight. Yes, carriers and vendors are entirely accountable, but in a way Google is definitely at fault too and should be using all its might and weight to pressure vendors into updating, and carriers to stop fscking with tailored ROMs and having a say in whatever the phone receives as an update. This is not a technical issue but a political one, that Apple sidestepped on the vendor front thanks to vertical integration but took a hard stance on in front of carriers.