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Re: Lindroid

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I mean my Messages app. I installed it years ago and never updated, because why would I ever updated an SMS app, the only thing that can ever happen is for things to break that used to be working, lol. I don't even know if I run A12. I do know, though, that the OP7Pro is one of the last Android devices that are whitelisted by Google to pass SafetyNet without hardware-backed attestation. Shame that TWRP wiped my worki…

> because why would I ever updated an SMS app, the only thing that can ever happen is for things to break that used to be working, lol. Text parsing/rendering is a security Achilles' heel, and SMS app vulnerabilities are commonly exploited entry points for persistent malware from the likes of NSO. All things being equal, should update SMS apps for the security updates.

Text parsing and rendering is supposed to be done by the OS. And if there's an OS-level vulnerability like that, then the OS is what you update, not necessarily just the app.

Re: Lindroid

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Userland is dog slow since it's based on proot. Termux needs to patch most of it's packages and is limited in what it can run since everything links to bionic libc.

Interesting. For me Userland is usable and not really slow.

usable to do what? Docker is a basic requirement to do any dev work these days and Userland cannot run it

Re: Lindroid

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> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.

on "some" phones
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