Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by pksadiq on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:40AM (#15372220)

> Basically only those rich enough to buy Google devices every three years.

Or when you buy a phone buy a phone that supports Lineage OS. My Samsung Galaxy S2 runs an up to date Lineage OS.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by pjmlp on Saturday September 30, 2017 @08:11AM (#15372500)

When I complain, I do it from the point of view of regular consumers.

Hacking devices is a workaround, not a solution.

It is this type of advices that made GNU/Linux fail at desktop adoption.

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by Spivak on Sunday October 01, 2017 @12:37PM (#15378570)

And yet the standard advice when anyone buys a Windows computer is to wipe it and install a fresh copy directly from Microsoft to remove all the crap your OEM put on it.

Is is really so strange that the advice for older phones would be similar?

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by sicelo on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:34AM (#15382050)

what is a solution?

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Re:Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices by muppetman on Saturday September 30, 2017 @09:18AM (#15372718)

It'll still be vulnerable to a degree then. Android itself will have patches, but the SoC won't because Lineage don't have source code for that, only the binary blobs.

Don't get me wrong, Lineage is great, but fully secure it isn't.

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