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To be exact, those aren't exploits of android itself, just the device it's running on. Not much of a difference in the outcome, but i guess it doesn't defeat the argument of google having good platform


This is a recent one. Whatsapp bug [1] exposed both Android and iOS few years back. And then there was MMS exploit [2] that affected close to 95% of android phones

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagefright_(bug)


While Stagefright "affected" them, it often wasn't exploitable. Not to mention that was 5+ years ago and they've since sandboxed all codecs, mitigating potential threats from that vector in the future.




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