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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by lucian1900 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:57AM (#12976020)
Security on desktop OSes is still much worse, with even sandboxing being fairly rare.
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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by simonh on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:06AM (#12976065)
Oh come on. The virus situation on Windows XP was appalling. The system was wide open. It's the primary reason I mainly switched to the Mac in 2006. Sane security was the one truly good thing that's come out of the post-XP era of MS operating systems.
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Re:No One Cares About the Security of Unlocked Android Phones by lucian1900 on Monday November 21, 2016 @12:41PM (#13007248)
Desktop OSes still run every app as the user, which gives them access to everything useful by default. Mobile OSes differ in this respect since they sandbox by default.
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