Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by pjmlp on Saturday September 30, 2017 @03:15AM (#15371688)

Not everyone has a bugdet to keep buying flagship expensive phones.

I own a LG device, bought in January, stuck on Android 6.

There are only 1.6% of people in the world that own an Android device with 7.1.1, consider yourself lucky.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by milankragujevic on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:19AM (#15372533)

I am so happy I bought a Galaxy J5 (6) that can be flashed with Lineage OS 7.1.2. It's a really good phone, and even better with LOS.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by pjmlp on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:42AM (#15372820)

Yeah, but it is quite bad that computers with the same price as mobile phones do get updates, while Android is at the whims of bean counters at OEMs.

All because Google don't want actually sort it out.

Given that OEMs are expected to push updates themselves on Treble certified devices, I don't have any hopes that the whole update chaos will improve.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by muppetman on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:19AM (#15372725)

You're only half secure though. You aren't getting the SoC patches so you'll still be vulnerable to Wifi driver holes etc

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by milankragujevic on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:26AM (#15372759)

Yeah but knowing Samsung no phones will get the fixes besides the current flagship and MAYBE the previous one, all too expensive for most people in 2nd world.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by hesarenu on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:45AM (#15372835)

You don't need to buy expensive mobile for latest android. I recently purchased 7.1 device for Rs 3000 about 50 bucks.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by pjc50 on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:35AM (#15371897)

I like my ZenFone 2 but it's stuck on 5.0 :(

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