[Discuss] Android Exploits Found in the Wild

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:47:45AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> >I don't buy phones that can't be unlocked and rooted so that I
> >can't run my own choice of OS on them.
> 
> This is no guarantee that you'll get the OS you want working on the
> device you choose. Google never put Android 4.0 or 4.1 on Nexus One.
> The system partition is too small to hold the OS. You're stuck with
> Android 2.2 or 2.3 which have this flaw and will likely never be
> fixed.

What! You mean that hardware may limit my choice of OS! How can
that be?

I can't get CM10 running on my Motorola Droid, either, but that
doesn't mean it was a mistake for me to buy it way back when.

-dsr-