Your phone probably contains banking, payment and personal information that can be remotely stolen via numerous known and unknown bugs in the Android software. This is attractive to criminals.
Vendors (LG, Samsung, Xiaomi, etc.), after selling you their phone, have no incentive to keep your phone's software up to date with Google's fixes. Your Android phone is probably out of date and therefore a gaping security hole through which attackers can steal your stuff from the safety of their own laptops.
In short, your phone could be hacked wide open from afar through a single innocent-looking email, MMS or web-page.
In the end the recommendations are: buy an Iphone, stick to Google phones or install a custom ROM.
Original URL: Android security in 2016 is a mess
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:12PM
I'll do you one better, the only thing I use mine for is taking dirty pics of Aristarchus' mother. Any thief stealing my phone gets punished thusly.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Tuesday December 06 2016, @11:14PM
That explains the picture of dirt and bones in a closet, on a bed, in the shower, in pleather, etc... But I still can't figure out the photo of the apron wearing goldfish in a giant bowl of wet noodles.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:22AM
Where is the -1 Ewww mod?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday December 07 2016, @02:55AM
But I still can't figure out the photo of the apron wearing goldfish in a giant bowl of wet noodles.
That was AC's actual porn stash.