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Are you concerned at all with security of the device? Just asking because I know lots of people who stick with older droids and none seem to care.
by goalieca 9y ago
Are you concerned at all with security of the device? Just asking because I know lots of people who stick with older droids and none seem to care.
- 5ilv3r 9y agoOld device user here. The frequency of exploits is going up, so older devices with few features and small attack surface are safer than new devices with the bells and whistles and a bigger attack surface. Basically, fuck you to the assholes pushing updates. They are doing it wrong and I reject them. I will accept no update with antifeatures, no matter how much they say it is good for me.
- goalieca 9y agoThe old device runs a complete browser with network access and daemons etc. It seems like all of the bells and whistles were already around for quite some time.
- bitL 9y agoSure I am concerned and am pretty well-versed in advanced cryptology myself and protocol/stack weaknesses/exploits. Frankly, Android lost me when I once bought a new phone and after installing a few apps from play store it was spamming me like crazy and discussing stuff with servers in China. Since then I use all Android devices for harmless stuff like browsing while in bath/sauna, controlling my DJI drone, navigation device on my bike, watching edX/Udacity/Coursera/Udemy etc. but never for serious stuff. For serious stuff I use Sailfish on a recent Jolla phone instead with customized security stack compiled from sources (security by obscurity as well).