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Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024
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this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Do note that although custom ROMs helps provide OS updates, it does not help with any firmware updates to your phone parts as those are vendor released. Once they stop providing those updates, it is no longer secure
I have a OnePlus 3T (2016) that is running Android 11 custom ROM. I use it mainly for some games and browsing. I would never use it as my main phone or use banking apps there though. Don't want to risk all of my data on there.
That's why GrapheneOS only supports phones that are still officially updated.
When you say "it's no longer secure", can you point to an actual vulnerability on older hardware and what the exploits are?
We keep hearing how unpatched phones are not secure but I'd like to hear more about what the actual risk is.
Millions of people use older phones that haven't been updated for years, yet it seems to me that scams are more about social engineering than exploiting software vulnerabilities on phones.
You might like this website! It's quite an interesting website to go through :)
https://www.cvedetails.com/
Though to be fair, majority of every day people probably aren't getting their phones hacked. And not every hardware has known vulnerabilities, at least from what I've seen on the website. Also, I don't know if it's true, but I heard that for a lot of exploits, the person needs the phone physically.
Not really my field of expertise though
Right?
Show me some stats where this is demonstrated to be a problem.
I run OLD versions - current phone is Android 9.
I've had 10x more problems caused by system updates than anything else, let alone "being insecure".
That is definitely true. Once the vendor stops putting up those patches, it does become quite problematic. So as long as you keep your Android up to date as best as you can and primarily use open source software and ad blockers, you should be alright in most cases.