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Remember Stagefright? What ever happened to that? The bloggers promised us all an impending Android security armageddon (and you didn't even have to be on the s
by bitmapbrother 10y ago
Remember Stagefright? What ever happened to that? The bloggers promised us all an impending Android security armageddon (and you didn't even have to be on the same WiFi network as this one requires). According to Google's SafetyNet, that gathers telemetry from over 1.5 billion devices, not 1 occurrence of Stagefright has ever been seen in the wild. Think about that for a second.
It turns out developing an exploit, chaining it with other exploits to get around the Android security mitigations and then trying to make it work on devices running different OEM builds of Android was more difficult then people originally thought.
Moral of the story? Next time you hear horror stories about how susceptible your device is to an exploit just remember Stagefright and what a dud that turned out to be.
- nikanj 10y agoStagefright could be filtered out at operator/app level, unlike this.
- bitmapbrother 10y agoNot really. Unless the carrier prevented the sending of MMS messages there wasn't anything they could do. About the only change made to most apps was to set the MMS auto play setting to off. Stagefright never amounted to anything due in most part to the Android security mitigations and the differences in each version of Android built by the OEM.
- nikanj 10y agoWait, are you saying MMS messages are direct peer-to-peer? My understanding is, they go through the operators' MMS servers, where all sorts of antiviral activities can take place.
- jaimex2 10y agoBachelor of Arts - Security Theatre should be a genuine coarse universitys make available.
- Pica_soO 10y agoSo, this is basically a additional protection layer of the android ecosystem? Security by diversity ?