Re:Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
by eithed on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:39AM
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Yup, that's what I mean. While I do have an Android phone that is patched (Samsung), I understand that many people will be hmm... irritated that this vulnerability won't be fixed and requires them to upgrade. I'd not treat switching to Apple ecosystem as panacea to everything though and would be more for security through audit, not obscurity.
Re:Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
by why_only_15 on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:04PM
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Apple's security is heavily audited in a lot of ways. They give special phones to researchers that make it easier to audit them, and there are significant bug bounties.
Re:Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
by dewey on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:43PM
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> They give special phones to researchers that make it easier to audit them
Did this already happen? I only remember the announcement and then researchers on Twitter complaining that the first one is yet to be seen.
If you mean "a bunch of relatively new Android phones not getting security updates because their manufacturer doesn't support them", then yes. Apple is actively providing not just security patches but entire feature software updates for the iPhone 6S, which is 4.5 years old at this point.