Crosspost of an ongoing thread over at !android@lemdro.id
Some interesting discussions on the trade-off between security and being able to use your aging Android for a little while longer.
Crosspost of an ongoing thread over at !android@lemdro.id
Some interesting discussions on the trade-off between security and being able to use your aging Android for a little while longer.
Nowadays people rarely attack individual random users. I believe the risk of running outdated software is super inflated and mediatic, 99% of people would be absolutely fine running a version of Android from 3 years ago or Windows 8.
That’s the same thing people running windows XP on internet were thinking in 2017.
Then WannaCry arrived and they got their data encrypted :)
WannaCry targeted hospitals, businesses and similar machines.
Your grandma using Android 9 is safe, don’t worry.
WannaCry targeted everything with SMB exposed, blindly.
Also, you should read more about security through obscurity, the fact that “no one will target you because you are a low-value target” is a false sense of security.