Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I’m currently using. The one we can’t talk about… He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I’m afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What’s your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

  • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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    11 个月前

    Wouldn’t those be typically handled at an OS level? If you’re using an OS that actually gets updates, you’re only vulnerable to attacks at the kernel or driver level

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      11 个月前

      If you are on stock software on EOL device you are not getting os updates either.

      Also a bunch of recent vulns were in SoC specific stuff - outside os.