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FTA: "[my old phone is] like that proverbial old pair of jeans"

Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits whereby someone halfway around the world can steal your banking credentials, private photos/emails, cryptocurrency, etc. Forced obsolescence exists, but I wouldn't put it at fault here.

If you want to blame anyone, blame Apple for locking down their hardware. I still use my old Nexus 6 (released 2014) with an up to date version of LineageOS from time to time. That's impossible with iDevices without a lot of hax or workarounds. 5-6 years is a generous amount of time for a vendor to support a software/hardware stack on a consumer device. It's more time than I've gotten from Google officially.

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> Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits whereby someone halfway around the world can steal your banking credentials

...does anyone know if this is actually happening on a significant scale? There are said to be tons of unpatched Android devices in the wild, but when I hear about accounts getting hacked, it mostly seems to be from leaked website databases and/or reused credentials.

If this wasn't happening to people during the jailbreak.me era where people were installing cydia right in the apple retail store on the demo units, then you can be sure its fud that's not rooted in any hard evidence.

>Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits [...]

>[...] I still use my old Nexus 6 (released 2014) with an up to date version of LineageOS from time to time.

If you're paranoid about 0 days, you really shouldn't feel safe with an "an up to date version of LineageOS". Even though they might technically be receiving updates, the kernel and proprietary blobs certainly are not.

> Your jeans don't have 0 day exploits whereby someone halfway around the world can steal your banking credentials, private photos/emails, cryptocurrency, etc.

I dunno a lot of my jeans end up with a hole right in the middle of the crotch and it actually kinda feels similar

Regarding the device in question (iPhone SE 2016) Apple are still releasing security updates for iOS 15. Not forever though, of course.

Theres been plenty of times where apple has not patched an exploit long after it was popular, to the point where people were making viral videos jailbreaking the iphones in the apple retail stores.

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