EFF: Don't Sacrifice Security on Mobile Devices

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a release on mobile device security, noting that open devices can be made more secure even if the original vendor is not interested. "By contrast, mobile systems lag far behind the established industry standard for open disclosure about problems and regular patch distribution. For example, Google has never made an announcement to its android-security-announce mailing list, although of course they have released many patches to resolve many security problems, just like any OS vendor. But Android open source releases are made only occasionally and contain security fixes unmarked, in among many other fixes and enhancements."

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