I saw in another comment here by offmycloud [1] that this affects: > Android phones and tablets. "In addition, the Android smartphone operating system (from ve

I saw in another comment here by offmycloud [1] that this affects: > Android phones and tablets. "In addition, the Android smartphone operating system (from version 4.0 onwards and possibly earlier; we don't know for sure when the change happened) uses GPSD to monitor the phone's on-board GPS, so every location-aware Android app is indirectly a GPSD client." Can someone explain how the patch for this will reach all Android devices (especially the large number of devices running older versions of the OS and not getting any updates at all)? What exactly are the consequences for these users? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28045191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28045191