Carephone warehouse are also still selling devices running android 5.0.2.
The number of vulnerabilities in that doesn't bear thinking about.
Posts by Beardedtit
2 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jan 2018
July is here – and so are the latest Android security fixes. Plenty of critical updates for all
OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections?
Monday 15th January 2018 11:15 GMT
Looks like it is using a timer API that tries to 'catch up' when the callout is delayed (even by sleep), so on wakeup all the callbacks happen back to back.
Not only does this break the network, the device itself is probably unresponsive until it has finished.
The real fubar is sending 'I am here' messages out at all, never mind at 20 second intervals.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
