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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by Cloudef on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:48AM (#34079421)
Still rocking my MI A1 after 5 years, and allowed to actually replace its parts too without signing into proprietary repair program which requires apple to remotely activate your new installed parts. I hate when useful things that work just fine are artificially reduced to e-waste. Now if we could go back to the nokia times, when swappable batteries were thing and spare parts were actually sold by the manufacturers.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by BozeWolf on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:54AM (#34079474)
Do you still get software updates from the manufacturer? Also, you do understand that you are probably the exception to the rule that in general iphones seem to get support longer than android phones.

In my opinion, in general, unsafe (outdated) devices should not be used as they are a huge attack vector because there are so many of them.

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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by szdva on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:56AM (#34079479)
Despite being an Android One phone, it was released with Android 7 but got stuck in Android 9 (Android 13 being the latest version). That makes it two years of updates. Yeah, the Android ecosystem is pathetic like that.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by Cloudef on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:57AM (#34079499)
Last update was 2020, but I don't really care about the updates nor "security", which is just blanket term for lockdown, aka security for the vendor, not your security. Android allows me to do things and does not treat me like a criminal in addition to feeling like I actually own the device.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by bootsmann on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:56AM (#34080105)
I don't know if I would keep some of my most private information on a device that has not had security upgrades for two years. Especially when exploits like [CVE-2022-20465](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2046...) which bypass the lockscreen exist.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by Cloudef on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:50AM (#34080694)
I wouldn't keep anything important on a phone no matter what phone it is. And even then if I did, I would use separate encryption app for storing such data.
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Re:Older iPhones Bricked for Being Too Outdated – Locking Us... by tpxl on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:54AM (#34079466)
Still have my original Galaxy Note 1. Original battery, screen recently replaced with a third party one for cheap. Calls and texts work fine, navigation is OK, I don't care about the rest.
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