Chris Soghoian, principal technologist and senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union has this to say about Android devices,
“You don’t need [a zero-day exploit] to attack most Android devices if consumers are running 13-month old software,”
According to Soghoian, the reason why there are so many Android devices that are vulnerable to hacking is down to the hardware manufacturers and wireless carriers. This, he says, is down to the fact that device manufacturers and carriers do not push updates out to their customers in a timely manner. Such updates, which often carry security fixes along with them, are designed to reduce newly discovered vulnerabilities but end users are not seeing the benefits as they receive updates when the carrier wants rather than when they first become available.
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