[chiglug] Thoughts on Android variants? (In particular, Copperhead OS?)

[Jim Campbell]

That is not very cool. Best case scenario for an easily exploitable (not by
me, though) root privileges bug - 2 months for a fix. Worst case (and the
actual case for most of humanity who own an Android phone) never fixed.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:58 AM sten <me at sud0.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, 15:24 Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
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> It also makes me sad about all of the Android devices out there that are
> now basically insecure, and will never have any hope of being secure. If
> even your best device (i.e., Nexus / Pixel) can go unpatched against a
> well-known vulnerability (Dirty Cow) for about a month, that's not good. I
> thought this article does a good job in explaining many of the background
> issues around Copperhead and Android:
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/copperhead-os-fix-android-security/
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> Looks like the Dirty Cow saga will continue for at least another month:
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> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/fix-for-critical-android-rooting-bug-is-a-no-show-in-november-patch-release/
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