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Re:Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of da... by fulafel on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:50PM (#24094617)
There is no reason to believe Qualcomm is more broken than competitors wrt this class of vulns.

(read the article or the original blog, q: "The more than 400 distinct bugs")

Re:Snapdragon chip flaws put 1B Android phones at risk of da... by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday August 08, 2020 @03:56PM (#24094678)
True, but the larger point is that the monoculture arguably makes the impact of any given vulnerability worse. Similar to how any given CDN/cloud provider probably has much better uptime than old-school web hosts, but now roughly half the Internet can be broken by one provider having an outage.