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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by iso1631 on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:12PM (#28436932)
If phones normally receive say 2 years of updates, any phone built since 2016 - thus eol in 2023, should support it (chrome/firefox were supporting tls 1.3 in 2017) - i.e in the next 18 months.

A vulnerability in TLS1.2 would need to be fixed (by implementing TLS1.3) in 7 years under "security patching".

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Re:Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of softw... by bbarnett on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:27PM (#28439560)
One thing, sometimes phones are released, but manufactured for 2 or 3 years, plus sit on store shelves for a year after that.

Today, you can often find such new phones on sale, yet already? No security updates. End of support.

So the life of a phone model before you even buy it new, may be years...

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