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EFF: Don't Sacrifice Security on Mobile Devices

Posted Jan 22, 2011 5:52 UTC (Sat) by anon@mailinator (guest, #72513)
Parent article: EFF: Don't Sacrifice Security on Mobile Devices

But Android open source releases are made only occasionally and contain security fixes unmarked, in among many other fixes and enhancements.

Well, just like what the Linux kernel is doing all the time (on the security fixes side).

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Posted Jan 23, 2011 14:37 UTC (Sun) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]

I don't see how these are related. Linux kernel isn't the vendor. Linux kernel is the upstream and distributions (including Android) are the vendors. Most distributions do make security announcements, unlike Google.