A new Android malware from Google

Re:A new Android malware from Google by preisschild on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:51AM (#48757476)

I wonder if it makes sense to create an independent hard-fork of AOSP in the future. But probably the only option to keep this somehow maintainable is to replace many android-specific components with other userspace linux components that are already well maintained (systemd, networkmanager, wayland)

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Re:A new Android malware from Google by kalx on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:49AM (#48757951)

Would this not require some control over the hardware? Which would be difficult for the FOSS community?

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Re:A new Android malware from Google by preisschild on Thursday July 02, 2026 @03:56AM (#48758007)

maybe not, heck people reverse engineered apple hardware and implemented it in various FOSS driver stacks

But yeah, vendors maintaining their drivers upstream in FOSS projects would obviously make it easer

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