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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by swsieber on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:21PM (#9957386)
Hopefully those who make texting apps will be sensible and push out an update that 1) has a message about the vulnerability and 2) that disables auto-downloading of mms.

Edit:And I say this because even though old phone don't get updated, their apps do. Tenuous at best, but still better than nothing.

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by e40 on Monday July 27, 2015 @03:26PM (#9957416)
The equivalent fix for the Android Google Voice app is... not needed, because it still doesn't handle MMS.

Yes, I know that Hangouts has GV integration, but it's pretty subpar. There isn't, for example, a decent Hangouts Chrome extension.

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by praxulus on Monday July 27, 2015 @06:49PM (#9958505)
Pretty sure I've started receiving MMS messages on my google voice number. It looks like support was added around November 2014.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by simoncion on Monday July 27, 2015 @09:42PM (#9959068)
Indeed.

The caveat is that MMS media attachments are not accessible in either the Google Voice Android app, or the web UI. They are (IME) only delivered as attachments to the email copy of the MMS.

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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by praxulus on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @07:29PM (#9965244)
Have you tested it recently? I just received a picture and it shows up as expected in hangouts, which handles my GV texts now.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by simoncion on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:46PM (#9979280)
I haven't integrated Hangouts with Google Voice, and I never intend to. I'm still using the standalone Google Voice Android app and the web interface.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by praxulus on Friday July 31, 2015 @04:52PM (#9984414)
Ah, I don't think you'll be getting many new features if you don't switch over.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by e40 on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @08:56AM (#9961090)
Yeah, I don't call that "support", though.
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Re:Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Ju... by simoncion on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:47PM (#9979283)
Why not?
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