Chinese KitKat

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 1/6/2014 12:56 PM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> AFAIK, there is no indication (not that I check obsessively) that 
> Gingerbread went the way of XP [chuckle]. You said yourself that you 
> see 2.x devices being sold today. Personally, I know I am behind on 
> the patchlevel, but upgrading is a MUCH bigger risk than any security 
> concerns, given my experience and my usage pattern. To explain, when 
> you look you find that many existing vulnerabilities (not all) exist 
> assuming you install and run applications that exploit them. This is 
> simply not very likely for me. Stuff where opening a specially crafted 
> SMS pwns your phone is very rare indeed.

 From what I can tell, they are all gone today. There were some 
available in June when I first looked at a phone, and BUG had only one 
model for sale at chanuka, when I looked again.

You may find one using ZAP, but I doubt it is anything except NOS (new, 
old stock).

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.