Re:Malicious apps infect 25M Android devices with 'Agent Smi...
by ansible on Thursday July 11, 2019 @08:54PM
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> This is also solvable by Android taking a slightly different approach. Isolating the OS and security framework so that it can always just be updated.
I think that is the plan with Fuchsia.
The core of the OS is small. The drivers can be separated out more easily, and with a (hopefully) stable driver API, they may not need to get updated ever (baring security bugs in the driver code itself).
I think that is the plan with Fuchsia.
The core of the OS is small. The drivers can be separated out more easily, and with a (hopefully) stable driver API, they may not need to get updated ever (baring security bugs in the driver code itself).