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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by gambiting on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:27AM (#12975842)
I guess a lot of people have moved to platforms which are essentially virus-proof, like the iPad. I have several members of my family who used windows computers before, now they use iPads exclusively for all their work and pleasure. Previously any of them would open anything that they got in an email, and I guess they still do - it's just that with some devices, it's not an issue. A zipped up virus won't do any harm on an iPad, and probably most Android devices are secure from that too.

So while I think that windows devices are as easy to infiltrate as ever, a lot of people have simply stopped using them, and replaced them with - coincidentally, not intentionally - more secure platforms.

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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by moyta on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:51AM (#12975993)
Pretty much this, security isn't improving, its just those infected zip & doc files usually aren't targeted at Android or iOS.
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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by lloeki on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:55AM (#12977008)
From trivial to apply app and OS updates to code signing and disabled sideloading, the mobile platforms (either one) make it really much harder to fall prey than on desktop OSes, by design. Malware authors have to hit a homerun on 0-days to even begin to get a foothold on the mobile OSes† these days.

† on properly updated devices such as the Apple ones as well as Nexus+Pixel. Probably this is where some form of vertical integration starts to really matter in practice.

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