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Huawei Technologies will begin selling smartphones capable of running its self-designed operating system next year, as it seeks to keep its consumer business going without Google Android and other U.S. suppliers. 
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It's easy to see that the Android ecosystem currently has a rather lax policy toward security, but a recent study from the University of Cambridge put some hard numbers to Android's security failings. The conclusion finds that "on average 87.7% of Android devices are exposed to at least one of 11 known critical vulnerabilities." Data for the study was collected through the group's "Device Analyzer" app, which has been available for free on the Play Store since May 2011. After the participants opted into the survey, the University says it collected daily Android version and build number information from over 20,400 devices. The study then compared this version information against 13 critical vulnerabilities (including the Stagefright vulnerabilities) dating back to 2010. Each individual device was then labeled "secure" or "insecure" based on whether or not its OS version was patched against these vulnerabilities or placed in a special "maybe secure" category if it could have gotten a specialized, backported fix.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
OEMs seems to be the core issue while Google's own Nexus hardware looks more secure (or less vulnerable depending on how you look at this)
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Google’s Project Fuchsia OS has been shrouded in mystery for the past few years. It was discovered almost two years ago when the company began quietly posting code to its GitHub repository and expanded with an actual “Armadillo” system UI last year, but there’s been little to no information about what Google intends to do with Fuchsia. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the Fuchsia team’s goal is nothing less than creating a single, unifying operating system that could run on all of Google’s devices: replacing Android, Chrome OS, and powering all of Google’s smart home hardware. The time frame is similarly ambitious: the team hopes to release a connected home device powered by the new OS within three years to introduce Fuchsia before moving on to larger devices like laptops and phones within the next five years.
It’s certainly an interesting idea that would give Google a second chance to build a more secure, easily updated OS to enable even better cross-platform integration than the current Chrome OS / Android divide. Security is also said to be something at the core of Fuchsia, which could help Google better compete with Apple’s more tightly locked down iOS, too.
Philippe J DEWOST's insight:
YAOS - Yet Another Operating System ? Coming from Google, it might be more than a fad...
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Avoir son propre (design de) processeur semble indispensable pour les acteurs de la #Tech chinois et américains. Il semble que le système d'exploitation soit la prochaine étape.
A la table des négociations l'Europe serait-elle réduite à figurer au menu ? Thierry Breton nous sauvera-t-il ? L'open source est-elle une piste avec RISC-V International ou Open Compute Project Foundation ? Aurions-nous raté une marche depuis l'apparition d'un chapitre "Souveraineté" dans le rapport trop vite enterré de la Mission Lemoine ?