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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 Your Android phone is probably out of date and therefore a gaping security hole through which attackers can steal your stuff from the safety of their own laptops.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: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday December 07 2016, @06:30PM
Tthis isn't really an Android problem. This is a problem with computer appliance manufacturers not providing diligent support and updates. I'm sure the same problem can be found amongst kiosk and hospital device manufacturers as well. The issue is irresponsible vendors, not Android.
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