I despise how security updates are bundled with feature updates.
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon I prefer, since years, the random criminal... at least, in this case, the law is in our side, while with the os, the law will protect them.
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
Ditch the app & find an alternative. -
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon
I remember when you had to protect your OS from malware instead of your OS actually being the malware you have to protect yourself from. -
@Em0nM4stodon
I remember when you had to protect your OS from malware instead of your OS actually being the malware you have to protect yourself from. -
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon Such is the misery of proprietary malware. -
I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon
Exactly this. Preparatory to shipping iOS 26, my iPad no longer accepts updates, so it's no longer safe to use online.I was forced to the new MacOS on my work machine, which is a (small, but still) factor in scheduling a job interview this week.
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@Em0nM4stodon
I remember when you had to protect your OS from malware instead of your OS actually being the malware you have to protect yourself from.I remember when the people you had to keep out of your computer were criminals, rather than the police.
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon security and feature updates should be separate as far as is practical
except where a feature strictly depends on another feature every feature should be selectable separately
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon sometimes, the best option is to change software packages. Harder to do with the OS.
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@Em0nM4stodon security and feature updates should be separate as far as is practical
except where a feature strictly depends on another feature every feature should be selectable separately
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon At least equally bad
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon what do you think is a reasonable and sustainable software update model? How many versions behind do you back port fixes to? For how many months/years?
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I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.Now we have to choose between risking getting malware from random criminal gangs when refusing to update, or getting embedded malware from the tech company itself that comes with their update.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
@Em0nM4stodon where are the Linux phones? There are barely any on the market. It's ridiculous. They should have been ready years ago.
Not to be paranoid but I'm pretty certain there is a conspiracy going on, that will be a public knowledge like the light bulb cartel is today.
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@Em0nM4stodon what do you think is a reasonable and sustainable software update model? How many versions behind do you back port fixes to? For how many months/years?
@Aurimas It really depends on each piece of software and the type of data it handles.
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@Em0nM4stodon where are the Linux phones? There are barely any on the market. It's ridiculous. They should have been ready years ago.
Not to be paranoid but I'm pretty certain there is a conspiracy going on, that will be a public knowledge like the light bulb cartel is today.
@licho I wish there was way more Linux phone models available from everywhere in the world. It's insane that we have so few accessible choices in mobile software.
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@Em0nM4stodon what do you think is a reasonable and sustainable software update model? How many versions behind do you back port fixes to? For how many months/years?
@Aurimas @Em0nM4stodon What’s most irritating about this to me is companies which ship security-only updates, but only to weird versions of the product. For example, Microsoft has LTSC versions of Windows (e.g, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC) which get security updates at the same time as the mainstream versions for *ten years*, and they don’t get any feature updates! They’re already doing the work of porting fixes around, they just don’t let the mainstream versions take advantage of it.
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@Aurimas It really depends on each piece of software and the type of data it handles.
@Em0nM4stodon I think it is really difficult to maintain and sustain more than just the latest version of a piece of software, which then in turn leads to fixes shipping together with features. Having had to back port security fixes to an old version of Android I really feel for picking the lowest cost way out.
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@Em0nM4stodon where are the Linux phones? There are barely any on the market. It's ridiculous. They should have been ready years ago.
Not to be paranoid but I'm pretty certain there is a conspiracy going on, that will be a public knowledge like the light bulb cartel is today.
@licho @Em0nM4stodon Eh?? Why would you want a Linux phone when you could grab a Pixel with bleeding edge security updates to firmware that is open to active development for alternative OSs like GrapheneOS?
And btw it's no conspiracy there are Linux phones on the market. They are nowhere near comparable to security you get with GOS.
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@licho @Em0nM4stodon Eh?? Why would you want a Linux phone when you could grab a Pixel with bleeding edge security updates to firmware that is open to active development for alternative OSs like GrapheneOS?
And btw it's no conspiracy there are Linux phones on the market. They are nowhere near comparable to security you get with GOS.
@x41h @Em0nM4stodon grapheneOS is still android. Pixel is made by Google.
There's a difference between "barely any" and "no". I said barely any. There are Linux phones but there are very few of them and they all suck. Most are "currently out of stock".
If there was a conspiracy it's unlikely you or I would know it for sure.
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