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In what way would this be "a very insecure phone"? It runs Android 4.4.4 just fine. I patched the one glaring bug ('Stagefright'), it runs the latest browsers (Firefox/Fennec, Lightning, PB) without problems.

While there is lots of talk about 'Android being insecure' it is hard to find actual examples of Android devices which are used in a sensible way (i.e. which do not get fed whatever APK just downloaded from getfreestuff.cooldoodz.biz) being exploited.



Well, if you haven't fixed CVE-2015-3864, CVE-2015-3876 and CVE-2015-6602 chances are you are still vulnerable by visiting a wrong web page.

Just look at the monthly security fix notes. There are critical vulnerabilities getting fixed every month.

Here are more critical ones: CVE-2017-0764, CVE-2017-0756 from the September patchlevel that also affects Android 4.4.4. See https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-09-01

In August 2017, three more. In July one. In May another two. Still not convinced?




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