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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

902 security vulnerabilities published for Android 9, 179 of which are “critical” (9+) vulnerability scores.

Including “This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.”

Yeah, no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

most of them if not all are mitigated by google play services. otherwise there would be 2 billion of infected android phones and there would be many alarmist posts like when ten years ago stagefright happened