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Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them

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@kiwi

the problem is that any new phone OS, however clean, is going to get "modified" by the phone manufacturers to provide back doors, thus rendering any security initiative pointless.

It doesn't matter how good the base software is, the phone companies will compromise it, making it totally pointless

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