X-post: Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates
X-post: Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates
Too many perfectly usable phones are put into a questionable security situation by lack of vendor support for keeping key software up to date. But what’s the actual risk of using an Android phone on a stock ROM without updates? What’s the attack surface? It seems like most things that’d contact pote...
Crosspost of an ongoing thread over at !android@lemdro.id
Some interesting discussions on the trade-off between security and being able to use your aging Android for a little while longer.
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Nowadays people rarely attack individual random users. I believe the risk of running outdated software is super inflated and mediatic, 99% of people would be absolutely fine running a version of Android from 3 years ago or Windows 8.
I believe the risk of running outdated software is super inflated and mediatic, 99% of people would be absolutely fine running a version of Android from 3 years ago or Windows 8.
That's the same thing people running windows XP on internet were thinking in 2017.
Then WannaCry arrived and they got their data encrypted :)
WannaCry targeted hospitals, businesses and similar machines.
Your grandma using Android 9 is safe, don't worry.
WannaCry targeted hospitals, businesses and similar machines.
WannaCry targeted everything with SMB exposed, blindly.
Also, you should read more about security through obscurity, the fact that "no one will target you because you are a low-value target" is a false sense of security.