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The unfortunate reality is that most users don't care for security. Google can continue to get away with only 3 years support of security updates. Another reason why I am considering going back to an iPhone.

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They don't care about security because they have never been affected by having an Android security patch level too old, and they don't know anybody who has. And they probably won't, honestly.

I find it very concerning that I can't download an update to fix this particular vulnerability without a help from the manufacturer of my device. PNG has nothing to do with drivers, after all. And yet, I doubt I'm going to get pwned over this one. Mitigations to the rescue.

I disagree. Users may not care about security in the same way that technical people do, but they do expect the data on their phones to be private (nudes, in particular). I think the reason why the current situation is generally accepted, is because nobody has exploited one of these vulnerabilities to extract user data on a large scale, yet.

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