In message , at 09:25:16 on
Sat, 20 Jul 2019, David Walters remarked:

If someone has root on the device I don't think any individual app can
keep itself secure anymore. Many apps will try and detect a jailbroken
device and disable themselves but it isn't clear to me that that detection
is infallible. Better to take reasonable steps to secure the device
which includes security patches IMHO.

My difficulty with this is that even when I had a phone which was
receiving Android updates, they were few and far between. And most
people will be in that same boat.

And yet there's not utter chaos that can be traced back to exploits.

I'm not saying that it's possible to ignore the possibility completely,
but there comes a point when a lot of phones don't have much worth
stealing from them.

I's far far more important for people to moderate their *ordinary*
behaviour on phones, to reduce the risks. As I've said in similar
contexts in the pat, patching your Operating System, or running a Virus
Checker, is very unlikely to stop you being conned into buying a fake
Rolex, or having a password written on a post-it note.
--
Roland Perry