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Wow! That proxy-bug means that the author of every app is able to read all of my network traffic! Its really amazing what kind of glaring security holes Android devices have. And how little media attention is spent on it. Is it still so, that on Samsung devices every app has full memory access? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931944)

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They patched the Exynos bug: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3883238/samsung-exynos-sec...

Interesting. The article sounds like only a few devices have been patched.

This was in January. Updates and patches are usually rolled out staggered, that is, not every device gets the update immediately. That helps in not overloading any servers and also helps in finding potential problems before every customer is affected. So I'd guess by now they should be all patched.

>> That helps in not overloading any servers

Pure apologism.

Yep. No excuse for delaying security updates by anything other than a bare minimum. There's other ways to spare your servers if that's the real problem.

Updates take a while... devices should be updated by now... or in the case of most devices more than 3 months old... ever

I swear, between this, Reader, and iGoogle.. I'm pretty disenfranchised... I may have to go with FirefoxOS, WinPhone or iThingy for my next cell purchase (just got my N4 & N7 a few months ago too)

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