Is Stagefright best thing that ever happened to Android? – Hypertext

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We are experiencing a convulsive weeks in the ground Android. The company Zimperium Stagefright discovered, the most serious security breach to date in the operating system. He would have then joined other vulnerabilities and evidence that the fingerprint is not entirely safe. Undoubtedly, this has shown that everything around the ecosystem, Google, manufacturers and operators must take seriously the problem of security and data protection, because it is estimated that about 95% of users Android are or were vulnerable .

Samsung has been one of the fastest companies to act, but how come the patches to older devices?

And the response from those players did not disappoint. Google, Samsung and LG, among others, have already announced that they will release monthly updates contain security patches. In fact, Google has announced the Nexus support the security in question extends to three years, compared with two years of great promised operating system updates. This news leads me to ask whether Stagefright is the best thing that happened to Android, and My only conclusion is that yes, it is best . We have spent years asking for more seriousness on the part of the great responsibility in this matter, and respuestan have always been very mild , and performances, to reach, they always did to scandals under the media reporting as hypertext.

will arrive patches to midrange and low? What are the deadlines for support? These and some other questions remain unanswered

What happened this time is that the problem is so serious and so widespread criticism, which already can not look elsewhere. However, this has also shown that, for good intentions that Google has always had this connection, the lack of control on Android is very large, because the patches fail deonde intended, when intended. It is the eternal return of fragmentation. Although Google Play Services is a powerful ally to end it does not affect the safety protects the user or vulnerabilities in the kernel .

Problem of the excellent and rapid action against Stagefright is showing us that, despite the steps necessary for the update reaches the user are the same as with a new version of the operating system, as required by operators and manufacturers pass, when taken all this seriously if will work better . And that means taking what we knew years, and is even considering the bureaucratic process of updates and approvals by Google, manufacturers are still not taken seriously have the updated devices.

And worse it is that great updates like Lollipop 5.0 or 5.1 security patches as or more important that you are about to launch are included. Priorities, though, are different. We need more Stagefrights in other areas .