In message , at 15:30:52 on
Mon, 22 Jul 2019, David Walters remarked:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 14:00:27 +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
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.

It's a shame that this is the case but just because most people do
something doesn't mean it is something I want to do. It would be better
if more manufacturers of Internet connected things, not just phones,
had a decent software update commitment.

I agree with that (and would have a more useful phone as a result).

But my point as that there's not much evidence that the existing schemes
are causing a huge security problem.

It might help if there weren't quite so many different phones for them
to keep up to date with.

I just checked, and my supplier, LG, have almost 600 different phones in
circulation (in the last 5yrs).
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Roland Perry