Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope...
by problems on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:35PM
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If it were so trivial it probably would have already happened. There's tons of cash to be made in SMS and MMS spam.
It's not trivial - there's a lot of devices and exploiting mitigation techniques to deal with, there's not even a reliable PoC that works on real-world devices with ASLR enabled.
These exploit mitigation techniques and differences in builds have basically saved it from becoming the disaster it sounds like at first glance.
I guess to answer your question, yes, yes we are that moronic. Not many people will care unless it's proven rapidly and readily exploitable.
It's not trivial - there's a lot of devices and exploiting mitigation techniques to deal with, there's not even a reliable PoC that works on real-world devices with ASLR enabled.
These exploit mitigation techniques and differences in builds have basically saved it from becoming the disaster it sounds like at first glance.
I guess to answer your question, yes, yes we are that moronic. Not many people will care unless it's proven rapidly and readily exploitable.