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This is mind-bogglingly bad. "Samsung shipped an estimated 100 million smartphones with botched encryption, including models ranging from the 2017 Galaxy S8 on up to last year’s Galaxy S21."

FOUR YEARS they blew it?! And Samsung was supposed to be the flagship of Droid phones?! There were two major flaws, one was fixed after it was revealed, then the second, dealing with initialization vectors, which was also there from the beginning, wasn't fixed until another paper was published.

Sorry, I'll happily stick with my lovely walled-garden iPhone. But to each their own. It may have its own issues, but I think their attitude to security is better than the Android paradigm.

As a commenter on Slashdot points out, "... Apple just issued a Security Update in September, 2021 that patches iOS 12, covering models clear back to lhe iPhone 5s." Instead, Google just obsoleted the Pixel 3, released three years ago.

'Build things fast and break shit' indeed. Great paradigm when you have your life's history in a device in your pocket. And it's not secure.

https://threatpost.com/samsung-shattered-encryption-on-100m-phones/178606/

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/22/02/24/222207/samsung-shattered-encryption-on-100-million-phones#comments
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