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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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This is fun: a zero-click android exploit that allows arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. Y’know, the worst kind. How did we get here?
AI, making everything worse, even before it runs!
https://projectzero.google/2026/01/pixel-0-click-part-1.html
Every now and then, I think about going back to android, and then I read stuff like this. FWIW, iOS had a closely related bug, but compiled the offending code with bounds checks, so it wasn’t usefully exploitable (and required some user interaction, too).
Anyway, if you do android, maybe check if automatic transcription is enabled.
>zero-click android exploit
>arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation
Remember when the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I suppose you can go for a Jolla, if you're willing to bet that SailfishOS will finally work. I'll let y'all know in a year or so.
I’ve thought about jolla, but I’m not particularly interested right now. Their security is unlikely to be anything like as good as ios or graphene, software availability is poor, the hardware quality appears to be ok at best, and so on.
I’m considering various alternative devices, but if it’s effectively a “vanilla smartphone only slightly worse” it doesn’t really appeal to me. If they’d built a modern n900, on the other hand…
@rook @BlueMonday1984 Android has asked me daily to update to v.14 for about 7 months.
I've said no every day, and it seems it's a very small price to pay :-)
I'm sure not updating your OS will save you from all security exploits, that's a sound strategy
@V0ldek Meanwhile I try not to be sure of anything, but I reasonably confident that "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit".
I understand a reasonable amount about exploits, but I'll keep your comment in mind.
Don't know who the source of this quote is but it sounds like cope by someone bad at sarcasm ¯\_(ツ)_/¯