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

[Dan Krol]

Re: cow - that's pathetic.

Jake: Well, what about Cyanogenmod or Copperhead OS? I have Cyanogenmod for
now, no Google apps/services. (well, Chatsecure connects to my gmail chat
account, if you count that.) But all my applications come from F-Droid.

For the few things where I want proprietary software... I actually just got
another cheap phone with actual Android, hooked it up to a dummy Google
account.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016, 15:24 Jim Campbell <jcampbell at gnome.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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/
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like the Dirty Cow saga will continue for at least another month:
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/11/fix-for-
>> critical-android-rooting-bug-is-a-no-show-in-november-patch-release/
>>
>
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