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Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users

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208 points mohi-kalantari | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.864s | source
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xnx ◴[08 Dec 25 17:09 UTC] No.46194816[source]▶
No fix yet for Samsung. Being reliant on the hardware manufacturer (or network operator?) for OS updates is the crazy world we live in.
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bigbadfeline ◴[08 Dec 25 17:45 UTC] No.46195302[source]▶
> Being reliant on the hardware manufacturer (or network operator?) for OS updates is the crazy world we live in.

Being reliant on a single OS permanently nailed to the hardware is no less crazier. I'd like to be able to install another OS on a vulnerable device, it would help tremendously and not only with the security of that specific device.

Now I've got some expensive paperweights that I can't even use as such because every time I see them I have the urge to throw them in the trash can.

Provide a way to unlock the phones and a standard BSP, it should be the law.

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1. edoceo ◴[08 Dec 25 18:25 UTC] No.46195806[source]▶
Please try to e-recycle rather than normal land-fill trash.
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2. secstate ◴[08 Dec 25 19:59 UTC] No.46196845[source]▶
e-recycling is only marginally better than a landfill. At least a landfill in pseudo-regulated government economy has the chance to be safely abated in 100 years. Though a few things of value are sometimes extracted, mostly it all ends in places like Turkey or India and burned or buried.

Sorry for the cynical take, but patronizing folks like this is worse than cynicism because it suggests that you actually believe what you're saying is true.