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What you describe is the artifact of an ecosystem where the consumer is a second class citizen. These exploits don't work on a desktop or notebook precisely due

by Hilift 2y ago

What you describe is the artifact of an ecosystem where the consumer is a second class citizen. These exploits don't work on a desktop or notebook precisely due to that ecosystem is obtuse and pretty much the opposite of an extensible platform.

saagarjha 2y ago
These exploits work perfectly well on those platforms. The reason you hear about people targeting them less is that they are easier to target with less sophisticated attacks and also not as valuable to attackers. In the cases they are your Android "root" exploit becomes a Linux LPE super fast.
- jacooper 2y ago
  I think the difference is desktop systems are way more transparent about what's going on in the OS compared mobile OS's which behave closer to a blackbox.
  - saagarjha 2y ago
    Sure, but my point above is that even with more transparency you won't catch people who are good at hiding.
dagmx 2y ago
Are you seriously saying there aren’t exploits on non mobile platforms? The platforms that have famously had many significant exploits over the years, and are the cause of many major data exfiltration operations? Are you pretending that viruses and worms don’t exist? Why does forwarding through we have things like windows defender or anti viruses then?