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Originally Posted by Fuzzillogic View Post
… yet there's no known malware, and afaik Sailfish is quite up-to-date with security patches for CVE's. Unlike most Androids.

Also, who knows what they have coming? Things like full device encryption don't seem to be too hard using the default Linux tooling (which does beg the question why it still isn't in our devices). And Jolla was touting extra security features from the SSH-guys. Perhaps they sold that to Turing? Indeed it remains to be seen what of that is going back upstream.
CVE patches are released only on updates and not as a patches.
If Android is more popular and thus has more malware doesn't mean Sailfish is more secure. Sailfish can run Android apps and as there is no official Google store and people are getting apk from internet shady sites - same chances to get malware as on Android.
There are vulrnabilities and malware on Linux today and thus on Sailfish.
It's not less secure than android but is not more secure as well (especially with no per app permissions support).
But yes "Android is baaaaaad!!! boooooo!!! Sailfish is more linux and this means be default is better"
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